My Review
Sugar for the Pill - Quicksand - Falling back to you
"Waiting dampens mediocre passions and increases the greatest ones."
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
When you realise that there are few situations that you can wait for without feeling helpless and passive you still feel pleasantly like a child.
It happens, then, that you spot those things which already belong to you in advance, because you have caught some very sweet signals.
This is the case of the album by the Greeks Sugar for the Pill, who have released two singles to anticipate their Wanderlust, that will be out on 18 March 2022.
Today I'm talking about these two songs that have already opened the heart, brought the body into the zone of conscious and robust dance, while the eyes become alert, then dreamy and then able to take what is far from reality and be led into everyday life.
This band is simply a mitral valve, a tunnel where beauty and enchantment take refuge.
Quicksand is the poetry of dust that you hear in the initial notes of keyboards and then deliver in the guitar and in the vocals which shock for their reflections of the 90s, creating echoes in the heart.
Like Fountain of Light, the song lives on the union of alchemy and celestial excursions, with the bass that alone would be enough to make us fall in love. But all the members of the band enter the work shop, where they exercise their impulses, the passions that generate this jewel, as a unique specimen in which to rejoice, with wide and serene smiles.
Falling Back To You is the movement of the sea that enters the sand and does so with subtlety, with elegance, while the drumming alternates, beating out the rhythm with the guitars that travel in the macrocosm of Dreampop and a bass that, starting from the Cure and arriving at Joy Division, is a solid pillar for Vana Rose’s voice which electrifies the air with its melodic melancholy.
The guitars of Spyros Mitrokotsas and Elias K are ecstatic and invade the senses, keyboards and the bass of Stefanos Manousis are ecstatic and frenetic, with the drums of Konstantinos Athanasopoulos giving liveliness, joy and a sense of rush towards that little bit of enthusiasm left for us to live.
A band that is what we are waiting for, as children, as adults, to be able to play with beauty...
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
February 25th, 2022
https://sugar-for-the-pill.bandcamp.com/track/quicksand
https://sugar-for-the-pill.bandcamp.com/track/falling-back-to-you
