Silver Lake by (Amorphis guitarist) Esa Holopainen

[Valtteri]

Amorphis guitarist Esa Holopainen is doing a solo project featuring many different guest artists called Silver Lake, and this is the first song:

Really digging this, can't wait to hear more.

[petereanima]

It's like the happy sunshine version of Amorphis - can see myself listening to this when i am in the hammock in the garden, reading a good book.

[Leah]

It sounds about as I'd expect, being a fan of his playing. Weird just how little gain he's using, though.

[Valtteri]

It's like the happy sunshine version of Amorphis - can see myself listening to this when i am in the hammock in the garden, reading a good book.

Haha yeah, that's an apt description. Curious to see what the rest of the album sounds like, and how varied it'll be.

[Valtteri]

There's a new tune out, which has the singer from Leprous on it:

[jacksonplayer]

Interesting. Kind of an '80s New Wave undercurrent going on with both tracks.

[Markus]

There's a new tune out, which has the singer from Leprous on it:

That guy does love his falsetto, doesn't he.

I like some Leprous tunes, but can't really listen to them for long because of the singer. While he's a really good singer technically, I just find something about his singing annoying. One thing is the over the top use of falsetto, and especially the sort of breaking into falsetto for a split second when singing normally (hard to explain, what he does at 45-46 seconds into the song) all the time.

Otherwise it's a pretty cool tune - and the chorus is really cool melodically.