Shape - Lonely Crowd

  by Maarten Schiethart

published: 25 / 9 / 2015

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Review

I was a little baffled by the Shape at first since bands from Italy rarely manage to leave a mark in the prospering global copycat Britpop business. Breastfed on opera and melody, an Italian band ought to know better. The Shape sound though as if Dave Mason had migrated without permission, winning perhaps the Wooden Spoon. The fact of the matter remains that the Shape's album is quite a fresh and brash escapade amongst the heaps of feeble indie memorabilia from the continent. The Shape's influences though stretch much further beyond that. They sound like they are from Glasgow having gone to Milan. Or returning from the band's native Verona. The Shape sounds best when they go Big Country with a touch of No New York Noise. If only they sang in Italian. I fail to understand why they did not dare to. The album includes plenty of moments of beauty. Che peccato.

Track Listing:-

1 Second Sun
2 Vacuum Eye
3 The Swan
4 Ancient Woman
5 Sunshine
6 My God Is Mad
7 Rain
8 Brothers
9 Mind Mirror
10 Old Black River

Band Links:-

https://www.facebook.com/theshapeoffic

Label Links:-

http://www.bassdept.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Bass-Departme
https://twitter.com/BassDepartment
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7QKI
https://instagram.com/bassdepartment/