ALBUM REVIEW by a friend’s friend from Canada
I placed your friend's group on cd and went for a drive. What an experience. Living at night, alone. Living while everybody sleeps. The city belongs to the night crawlers.
I love your friend's stuff! It is so good. I love their mood. It is somehow mystical. There is a melancholy about it and a reflection of things. U listen to it and it is almost a soundtrack to life as it is lived. You can feel the uncertainties of life and at the same time it's beauty. I can even call it romantic. It captures moments in their creation, while at the same time reflecting on that same moment. Am I making sense? The instrumentation is so profound. The voice is like a smoky bar.
There is a mood of seductive addiction about the music. It makes you want to cling onto that certain special moment that you know will never be found again. A deep moment that you know can never again be experienced. That special moment with no possibility of repetition. It makes you feel the passion of life, its desires, its loves, even it's loneliness. You can feel the never ending human hunt for companionship within the loneliness that is life..
ALBUM REVIEW by Power Play Records
Sometimes it is really great when you follow a band from their very beginning. Four years ago I got in contact with Plaything. From the first time that I heard their stuff, I knew it that this band won't stay without some progress.
After two demos Plaything, had already changed their music direction and it was the time for Old House Playground to come to the surface. Definitely Tryfon Lazos and Evangelos Vassilakos, are two open minded musicians.
It is needless to say that they have more than well worked compositions with incredible ideas, a massive sound and don't forget that this album mastered at the famous Athens Mastering studios. "The Whore and the Dog" is an album for your life, you can see yourself through the lyrics of each track or you can see your alternative self. You can freely travel to the 40's decade down in the street while you will enter a smoky and filthy bar. Watch out, Old House Playground is a mirror and you will see yourself.
Don't be afraid this is you, maybe you will try to hide this side of yourself but you never stop it. Old House Playground is here in order to help you or to make you think about yourself and what you are doing in your life. Last but not least, don't forget this is the last bad year.
SCORE out of 9/10 Antonis Maglaras
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