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Although
there is a certain reassuring quality to evergreens – you can rely on them to
never drop their foliage – it’s the flowering plants, the ones that bud,
blossom, and bloom, which really light up and even define a season. This is
exactly what happens on Flowers, Sin Fang’s third solo album: Seabear’s founder
and mastermind unlashes a melodic spring storm and explores even more corners
of the lush and baroque gardens he spent the last five years in.
Following
his Half Dreams EP, Flowers is a solo album that nevertheless opens with a lot
of collective chanting, a sense of deep rootedness, togetherness, unity, shared
experience: “We were young boys, smoking in the woods, I showed you how”, are
the first words Sindri Mar Sigfusson aka Sin Fang scatters across the
less-beaten tracks, only to leapfrog across the lawn and switch on the stage
lights for his own take of stadium pop. Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with
your ears: A song like “What’s Wrong With Your Eyes” would indeed sound
infinitely awesome in a stadium setting – it’s so massive, so outspokenly pop,
when the beat meets layered vocals and the piano comes in just at the right
moments. “I was thinking a lot about pre-teenage and teenage feelings,” he
explains. “The exaggerated feelings and dramatic thoughts that most teenagers
go through: Love and rejection, the constant ups and downs... I thought Flowers
was a good name for that theme as they are used both for sad and happy
occasions.”
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