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Before anyone starts to worry, we’re not doing a double review. We are in fact reviewing the Danish Eurovision winner’s debut album, which just happens to have the same name as the winning entry.
Opening with the Only Teardrops Overture (yes, it’s orchestrated) but it’s quickly into the next track of Hunter & Prey which is just a nice true entry into the album before heading into the more uptempo area with Change (we wonder what a remix would sound like….)
Taking it down is the title track, Only Teardrops (see that review here) before heading into another little pop track of What Are You Waiting For. With military sounding drums and de Forest ensuring that each syllable is dictated , we have Haunted Heart.
Force of Nature has a bit of a My Immortal (Evanscence) feel to it before we’re raising the tempo once again for Beat The Speed of Sound, a song that probably wouldn’t sound out of place if sung by someone like Ellie Goulding. Soldier of Love is another track with a military beat to it but it does suit it given the title of the track.
Running in my Sleep feels a little out of place in the running order as it has more of a last track feeling whereas Let it Fall feels as if it should have been before and has a bit of an ethereal feeling to it. Closing the album is the symphonic version of Only Teardrops, a sample of which we heard at the start of this journey though this version has a delicate and fragile air about it.
The celtic feel that was heard from the title track all those months ago echoes through a number of the tracks on the album. Thankfully, she hasn’t tried to fit herself into too many styles here, and on the whole, the tracks so compliment each other. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here
Rating: 4/5
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