Time doesn't always allow me to listen to music at home. Most of my music listening is at work. I also started to take public transportation to work so I dont have to pay $125 a month for parking. The city bus does just fine. Picks me up 3 house from where I live and drops me a block from where I work. This has afforded me my own time to throw on the headphones and ignore all the people around me.
One such album I have been enjoying the last couple days is Azure Blue's "Rule of Thirds" which came out at the end of last month on UK Indie label Matinee Records. Matinee has put out consistently quality material since its inception. Azure Blue is no different from the rest in that department.
Azure Blue is a solo project from Tobias Isaksson of Swedish pop group Irene. This release took a couple listens but now it has reached one of those points. The point like when I discover something fantastic is going on here. A band comes around every so often and hits me like that. R.E.M., Stereolab, The Smiths, last year it was The Pains of Being Pure At Heart. This happens every so often. I think this band may have made that list.
Great melody, great synth work and top notch song writing. "The Catcher In The Rye" (my personal favorite here) starts off sounding like Duran Duran but goes in a completely different direction when the rest of the music kicks in. "Dreamy Eyes" has an 80s Cure drum beat but with great keyboards and vocals. Lyrically I think this guy is on to something.
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