Bleached - Ride Your Heart (2013) [FLAC] torrent

Bleached - Ride Your Heart (2013) [FLAC]

Genre: Rock
Styles: Garage, Alternative
Source: CD (log + cue)
Codec: FLAC
Bit rate: ~ 900 kbps
Bit depth: 16
Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

01 Looking for a Fight
02 Next Stop
03 Outta My Mind
04 Dead in Your Head
05 Dreaming Without You
06 Waiting by the Telephone
07 Love Spells
08 Searching Through the Past
09 Ride Your Heart
10 Dead Boy
11 Guy Like You
12 When I Was Yours

By the time Mika Miko released their final album, We Be Xuxa, Jennifer and Jessica Clavin were already leaning toward the cleaner, more melodic punk-pop that they explore more fully on Ride Your Heart, their debut album as Bleached. Their early singles, like the excellent "Searching Through the Past" -- which appears here and remains a highlight -- were equal parts sassy attitude and vulnerable confessions, all wrapped up in inescapable hooks and melodies. However, that immediacy is missing a little too often on these songs, and the Clavin sisters sometimes sound less sure of themselves than they did before. "Outta My Mind" and "Next Stop" have nice harmonies but aren't especially distinctive; "Dead in Your Head" shows that they've developed their skills with tension and release, yet still drags. Since there was no shortage of like-minded acts at the time of Ride Your Heart's release, it's understandable that Bleached expanded on their sound here, albeit with uneven results. "Guy Like You" shows off some unexpectedly sensitive songwriting from the sisters, not just compared to their Mika Miko work, but to their earlier singles as well