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Let This Be the Last Night We Care

Alcoholic Faith Mission

Paper Garden Records

6/10

Mixing grand merriment with a dirty hangover, Danish quintent Alcoholic Faith Mission send you into a drunken haze.

Marking their third coming, “Let This Be the Last Night We Care” is third release from Danish duo Thorben Seierø Jensen and Sune Sølund aka Alcoholic Faith Mission. Now sporting a considerable change in line up with the additions of Kristine Permild, Gustav Rasmussen and Laurids Smedegaard to proceedings, AFM seem to have freed themselves of the shackles that bound them on “Misery Loves Company” and "421 Wythe Avenue" to create a dynamically well constructed album that blasts flashes of Flaming Lips and Broken Social Scene with the soft ambience of Iron & Wine.

Tracks like “Should’ve Left Before She Woke” and “The You, That You Could Use” instantly capture your imagination with their synth samples and Arcade Fire-esque rock lambasts. Completely enthralling at times, their music remains soft at its centre yet totally intense in it’s delivery. Fortunately there are no tediously offensive eleven or so minutes tracks like "Sweet Evelyn" from "421 Wythe Avenue" but for all the dexterity and clear forward thinking that comes with this album you still can’t help but feel they almost get too carried away with themselves at times. Somewhat underwhelming, “Honeydrip” and My Eyes To See” find themselves leading you into a similar drunken haze like state that probably led to their name in the first place.

Fortunately, such moments aren’t enough to negate the effort that has gone into this album and What’s more, “Let This Be the Last Night We Care “ still seems a natural evolution for a band that at the best of listens can sometimes leave you in a bit of an experimentalist quandary with their varied directions. Alcoholic Faith Mission's site

Michael Ajayi



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