The Kissaway Trail - La La Song (Bella Union)
3/5
By: Chris O'Toole
The Kissaway Trail return with the second single taken from their self-titled debut album, 'La La Song'. A tidy little summer pop ditty the track comes replete with arching, aching vocals, melodic choruses, multi-tracked chanted vocals and a mildly cult-ish feel. And whilst it is epic in tone and posture this is only in miniature, never achieving the heights or importance the Kissaway Trail seem to think it deserves.
The press release states "The Kissaway Trail have the power to lift people out of their lives and transport them to a world of drama, beauty and wonder". Yes, this is certainly true. However, the world of wonder evoked her is David Bowie's Labyrinth; a slightly off-kilter fantasy land, filled with creepy, over friendly goblins. Nothing is what it seems in this world and there seems to be a lack of sincerity at the heart of the track, the euphoria a little too polished to be genuine and the production a little too laboured to convey the apparently spontaneous outpouring of bliss.
Nonetheless the chirpy vocals of Thomas L. Fagerland and bright airy playing of multi-instrumentalist Daniel Skjoldmose do give the group a joyful sound in which only the most bitter cynic could fail to find some summer pleasure. Beautiful if flawed.
Watch the video to 'La La Song' HERE.
Artists in this article: The Kissaway Trail
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