Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go

Genre rock Publisher Sonic Unyon Records External Links Official Aereogramme Website Official Sonic Unyon Records Website

If your life entails lying in bed on your side, staring at the wall as the sun moves the light across your room with each passing minute, listening to Aereogramme will certainly inspire you to leap out of bed to face the world with arms blazing and renewed sense of self. Of course, the serious pillow talk you're having with your lovely beau will have to wait.

That is the trend on Aereogramme's third album My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go, a collection of quiet and occasionally lush stanzas backed up by inspiring, wall of noise guitars and emphatic phrases. There is no new ground being broken here except taking to the extreme what hundreds of bands have effectively produced in the previous decades. Think a more croonsome first album Radiohead with Mercury Rev aesthetics.

My Heart... has a full prog rock feel to it and teeters into the territory of lead singer Craig B. taking himself way too seriously. I wouldn't call it self-parody, but it's only a gold record away. But if you're looking for an upper without risking civil disobedience, My Heart... has its fill, from the orchestral build up in "Barriers" to the peaks and valleys of "A Life Worth Living," each song could make you leap from your action slumber.

There isn't a particular song that stands out on My Heart..., but "Nightmares" sounds oddly familiar. Besides the uplifting nature, Aereogramme does a poor job of grabbing and holding the listener's attention in both the soft and loud parts. Don't hit your head when jumping out of bed.