Son Ambulance – Someone Else’s Déjà Vu

From the moment “A Girl In New York” opens Son Ambulance’s second album in samba mode, we’re thrown back to the sixties. Other names that flashed through my mind as “Someone Else’s Déjà Vu” was playing included everyone from Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones (“Wild Roses”) to Simon & Garfunkel (“Horizons”), Air (“Legend Of Lizeth”) and Bright Eyes among others.

Everything sounds very cute and cuddly while singing about broken hearts but I never got sucked up into the music. They’re piling stuff on top of other stuff and actually get away with it for the biggest part because – admitted – things sound pretty. But they never come off as authentic or heartfelt.
Score: 5 out of 10
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