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• Artist: Last Days of April
• Album: Angel Youth
• Label: Deep Elm
• Year of Release: 2001
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-30

Last Days of April come our way via Sweden and although Angel Youth has been out on Bad Taste records since last year in Europe, it was only recently that they have been released in North America on Deep Elm. This is some of the sweetest melodic rock I have heard in a long time. You could easily call Last Days orchestral rock with their complex arrangements they pull off. Not necessarily traditional either. They use a thick studio production on their mix that allows them to layer both vocals and instruments providing a very lush sound. Most of the tracks have a dark sad feeling throughout them but they always manage to put in a ray of hope to avoid depression. They do have quite a bit of experience under their wing as they have been together since 1997 and previously they were all in various Swedish punk bands. They use this to their advantage with premium songwriting and very clever production thanks to Pelle Gunnerfeldt. It’s amazing the way they have that sonic wall of sound and yet there are always melodies soaring in and out. Angel Youth will provide me with many repeated listens.

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