THE Remedy we discovered them with pleasure just a year ago, on the occasion of their brilliant debut”Something That Your Eyes Won’t See“, a powerful mix of eighties sounds seasoned with lots of good taste and beautiful melodies. A record that honestly made such an excellent impression on us that we considered it among the best things of the year.
And even then, we would have been ready to bet that, given the qualities displayed, this excellent Swedish group would have continued to make excellent music even in the continuation of a potentially top-of-the-class career.
We didn’t have to wait too long to get confirmation. “Pleasure Beats the Pain” is basically what we expected from them. A brilliant second chapter that goes in the same direction as the debut, keeping almost all the style and songwriting characteristics unchanged. But above all, the quality of the proposal.
Enjoyable from the first listen, refined in their arrangements, with a great instinct for building melodies with instant impact, the Remedy where possible, they broaden the effectiveness of their music by stringing together a series of “strong”, solid, almost unassailable songs. Toto, Journey, Europe, Treat…there are several great names to be found in various capacities among the sources of inspiration. Honored, elaborated, made their own and lined up to give substance to a system of almost exhilarating sounds and sensations.
“Moon has the Night”, “Caught by Death“, “Angelina“, “Bad Blood”, “Crying Heart” are pieces that immediately capture and give the immediate idea of the perfect blend between the parts, where melody, listening pleasure and rock scents condense almost perfectly into a textbook whole.
Sublimation of excellence to which i Remedy must necessarily be associated and then “Poison”, a summation at the limits of perfection of everything that can be used in the field to write an exemplary melodic rock song. Slippery, chrome-plated, full of Eighties charm and with a contagious atmosphere that draws so much richness from the profound arrangements. A song that alone can represent the excellent level achieved in a short time by the band led by Roland Forsman And Robert Van der Zwan.
Sometimes it takes little to make the listener understand the value and quality of one’s means. It is no coincidence that a respectable and very expert label in the sector such as Escape Music he didn’t waste too much time in signing them.
A certificate that smacks of investiture and promise: together with a small group of other names, they could, in fact, represent a brilliant future for the genre.
There’s no point in pretending nothing happened: with HEAT, Eclipse And Nestor, the future of melodic rock also passes through them. Come on Remedy…
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