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The Amazons 21st Century Fiction

For their new album, 21st Century Fiction, The Amazons explore certain fictional and musical genres while keeping their identity intact. Review.

21ST CENTURY FICTION – THE AMAZONS

With 21st Century Fiction, The Amazons take us on a journey through far more than just an album. A good piece of fiction often includes memorable and impressive scenes. While there are several here, the intro sets the tone. Living A Lie questions reality, lies, and fiction. The low can become high, the dark turns to light, and hope shifts into anxiety. Sunrise or sunset on the horizon, this opening track gave me chills with its epic progression, that clear, almost divine voice that opens it all, and its deep basslines. The transition into Night After Night is seamless and still carries that atmospheric ambivalence that places their fiction somewhere between dystopia and utopia.

The various interludes form a bridge between the different styles the band dares to explore on this record. (Panic) moves into Pitch Black, with influences of desert rock. With My Blood, a bold and epic classic rock sound awakens. (Shake Me Down) links to Wake Me Up, vibrant and tinged with folk. (Intermission) is a genuine break, once again luminous and cinematic. We pass through another portal, into another world, and suddenly find ourselves in a dark, electric, and thrilling noir film with Joe Bought A Gun. Linking it all with real-life events and current worldwide politics might not be just a coincidence…

Love Is A Dog From Hell is more surprising with its marked country energy. It’s catchy, still somewhat dark, and although it stands out, it fits perfectly within the concept of the album. The Heat! pt.2 returns to a sound more typical of the band, followed by Heaven Now, ideal for setting the mood in a desert cyberpunk world. It’s my favourite track on the record. The Amazons close 21st Century Fiction, their search for reality within the imaginary, with Go All The Way, delicate, epic, and uplifting. A superb conclusion to a particularly accomplished record!

 

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