If you were an animal what kind of animal would you be?
The question and other pass-the-time meanderings are not needed to kill the time (surely one would not think of a sparrow though) while listening to these two tracks of the new band I Used To Be A Sparrow made up of not-so-new-in-music members. The name made an impression first before I even got to hear the music itself. And why they both look sad in the picture? That’s another one. Kidding aside, it is always a welcome to have new music come this way.
With that poetic shot at their name, Swedish songwriter Dick Pettersson and Italian wanderlust Andrea Caccese (Songs for the Sleepwalkers) tested the waters by throwing some ideas for a collaboration, teasing the possibility of recording few songs yet the duo found themselves committing to a full-length right after few sessions.
Due in March, the single “Life is Good” and its B-Side “Mikkael” preview what Luke will be like come its release next month on the 14th.
An expansive and youthful anthem, “Life is Good” shines in its catchy chorus as Pettersson and Caccese sound intoxicated with nostalgia. With every instrument credited to the team, layers of vocals swim onward with the outstretching guitars filling up the empty space in its four minutes dream. The B-Side “Mikkael” builds on drums, down tempoed and moodier than the carrier single before messing it in the middle of haste and reverb. The tracks are available at the band’s Bandcamp for free and the music video for “Life is Good” has just been released and is directed by fellow Swedish Johan Haglund (ProLounge).
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