Wrapping and packaging is good, but sometimes uncalled for. That is just about the formula of Lily Electric, and also for this review: The concert was fucking brilliant.
Lily Electric is a poprock band. The vocal harmonies are catchy and the beat effectively gets your feet moving. If you listen closely, however, you will find their songs complex and original; the melodies are intriguing and the compositions full of innovative time shifts. Lily Electric is an artrock band.
Bands as diverse as Beatles, Blur, Talking Heads and Gang Of Four comes to mind, but only serve to plot out the band’s musical journey to Great Britain, because Lily Electric has a very personal and well defined sound. The rythmic originality, the great variations in the songs and not least the harshly ornamented and extremely elegantly delivered melodies is indeed an ambitious point of depature, but everything clearly works out for Lily Electric.
All elements excel on their own and together, and that is without resorting to the use of more distortion, effects or noise than is absolutely neccesary. Still, the music does not come off as dull or tame. Lily Electric simply shows their teeth through excellent songwriting and an utterly convincing performance. At times you could actually wish they would stumble a bit, but in this review it won’t be held against them that they don’t.
Reviewed by: Filip Granlie, GAFFA Translated by: Mads Just-Olesen, MyMusic.dk
