Swedish pop sensations Azure Blue return to the new release shelves October 8th with a brilliant new album ‘Beyond The Dreams There’s Infinite Doubt’ (matcd063) in deluxe matte finish eco-wallet CD and digital formats.
The album features the first new Azure Blue recordings since the warmly received debut album ‘Rule of Thirds’ (matcd059). The debut received astounding critical praise, winning a Swedish independent grammy—the Manifest award—for best pop album in 2012 and enjoying exposure on both Swedish national TV and Spanish national radio.
Among the outstanding reviews for the album, The Line Of Best Fit (UK) called it “nostalgia fuelled pop harking back to the heyday of Factory Records,” while Blurt Magazine (USA) named it “the best electro-pop record in recent memory.” Azure Blue toured extensively on the back of the success of the debut, across Europe in 2012 and taking in a live North American debut at the New York City Popfest in June of this year.
The new album builds on the tremendous success of the debut with highly personal and deeply romantic songwriting bathed in especially polished production. Lead single ‘The Road I Know’ has been described as “a cacophony of vintage synthesizers battling for attention over a bed of whiplash electronic drums, all toned down by Tobias Isaksson’s romantic, softly delivered vocals.” The song is incredibly melodic and majestic all at once and recalls the magnificence of the Pet Shop Boys or New Order at their very best.
Among many album highlights, opening track ‘Time Is On Our Side’ showcases Tobias’ elegant, warm vocals set to ambitiously sweeping instrumentation, while ‘Willows and Pines’ displays a downbeat splendor of captivating electronica and ‘Sunset’ is a hypnotic and especially ebullient masterpiece that sparkles in all the right places.
Preorders begin soon in the Matinée shop. In the meantime, have a listen to album highlights ‘The Road I Know’ and ‘Willows and Pines’ on the player below. A third track ‘Sunset’ will premiere here on Friday so check back then for another taste of this great album!