Scarlet – ‘Obey The Queen’ (Arising Empire)
John B has very mixed feelings on this debut album from Scarlet. It is a little hard to explain as it is mostly an emotional response. Some aspects are really good while others feel like they fall flat. It feels like every track was supposed to have this deep meaning but JB finds he’s just left confused. Especially because the press packet that he was sent states the meaning behind some tracks; but on most of them our man doesn’t see the connection between the stated meaning and what lyrics are actually said. There are these kinda strange creepy elements to some of the tracks that are just weird and he kinda think that was the goal. Once he got there and stopped trying to dig for these deeper meanings, however,suddenly he was able to find things he liked…
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