Cascada // Acoustic Sessions

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If you’ve visited before, then you’ll know that our feelings for Cascada releases vary considerably! So will their latest release, Acoustic Sessions do anything for our opinion of them? Well…actually yes.

Opening with a cover of 74-75 with The Cornnells you’re sort of drawn into what you are going to be offered here on the album before we head into Evacuate The Dancefloor. You is a piano duet with Robin Stjernberg on his Eurovision entry earlier this year (and secretly, we’ve wondered what it would sound like as duet, now we know!) before heading into another Eurovision track, that being Casdada’s own entry from the Eurovision, Glorious.

Why You Had To Leave pops up next followed by the first Yanou’s Candlelight mixes  in the form of Everytime We Touch. Golden Train is a bit of an oddity in this collection as it just seems have been dropped randomly into the tracklisting. Bringing it up to date with the most recent album, Original Me, is Hold Your Hands Up which in some instances was already sort of an acoustic number. Then it’s back to album no.3 (Evacuate The Dancefloor) for Breathless, a track that been given the duet treatment with Nick Howard.

San Francisco keeps the pace of the previous track before we drop back for another visit to the candlelight mix for What Hurts The Most. Two tracks from the recent studio album, Original Me follow with Enemy & Hangover (although the last sounds very similar to it’s studio version)

Everytime I Hear Your Name picks the pace up just slightly from the previous two tracks. The version of Ready For Love (from the debut release, Everytime We Touch) is a slower affair to it’s original. The Buena Vista mix of Evacuate The Dancefloor brings a little salsa to the dance hit and surprisingly, it works well before we end the album with another candlelight mix of Draw The Line (though we don’t know of any other version of the track!!)

Whilst we’ve heard some of the versions here before (Yanou’s Candlelight mixes & Evacuate The Dancefloor for example) we can’t help think that this shows another side to the team. You wouldn’t think that for being more of a dance orientated group that they’re music would transfer well over to acoustic but it does and does well, at least the tracks that they’ve chosen to showcase on this release. In fact, we’d go as far as to say IF Cascada ever considered it, we’d probably be first in line for an acoustic show!

Rating: 4/5