Sophia - 'People Are Like Seasons' (City Slang)
3/5
By: Matt Tomiak
In describing themselves as 'Mogwai performing the songs of Coldplay', Sophia aren't being entirely honest.
Well, sure, 'People Are Like Seasons' does chuck in the odd bit of eardrum-bursting, sepulchral sheer-noise-terror snippets, but by and large this is an album more concerned with quavering, graceful twilight music. What could be merely described as a kind of brooding middle-ground (Six by Seven, perhaps?) is truly the ambition realised.
Ambitiously enthralling, the eight-minute long 'Desert Song No. 2' hitches 120 seconds worth of momentous reverberation to its finale, but that sort of thing pales in comparison to the grander likes of an exquisite 'Swept Back' or 'Swore To Myself.' Sophia can also pull off delicate, Simon and Garfunkle-esque grace: 'Holidays Are Nice' opening with the not-particularly-cynical pronouncement that 'Holidays are nice/Holidays are fun/Holidays are wonderful/When you're the one.'
Can't see Chris Martin writing anything to similar to that in the foreseeable future...
Artists in this article: Sophia
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