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The cold-hearted ones have all earned their stripes in other bands and have thus brought along a colorful bouquet of musical styles. This ranges from primitive forward rock to ballads and especially tricks on how to implement such things in the studio. This is a strength of the album, its versatility; the downside is that the band hasn’t found its style yet. It feels like every second track sounds like a well-crafted imitation of well-known acts. They happily wander into friendly territory, but that certain something is still missing. The band manages to do everything right in individual tracks, yet remains strangely characterless as a whole.
I like the band best when they play straightforwardly. The experiments are also worth listening to, sometimes a ballad, sometimes (sit down) vocoder; the fun in it is palpable and certainly a better guide than a formulaic approach. And that voice – somehow brutal, emotional, penetrating. Surely heavily doped with effects, it fascinates me and sticks in my mind. Once COLD COLD HEARTS figure out where they want to go, they can become quite big.
