Early Halloween, SOLOWEEN Review

Well it's been a strange year for the duo Aural Vampire, they have ditched being a duo which lasted 8 years, to being a band by obtaining four new members, changed record labels and changed their genre from darkwave to electro rock and applying it all to their new single "SOLOWEEN".

 Track Listing

SOLOWEEN

Halloween Jitterbug

Back to Halloween

SOLOWEEN (instrumental)

Halloween Jitterbug (instrumental)

Back to Halloween (instrumental)

SOLOWEEN

Since this is the first song since the genre change SOLOWEEN is definitely not the same as the usual type they do, it no longer has that heavy darkwave sound to it, instead it's a lighter version as it is dimmed down with the help of guitars and drums -which is in charge of two of the new members-, however this is not all bad as SOLOWEEN actually sounds brilliant, EXO-CHIKA's style of vocals still remains the same and the music still sounds like a 70s horror soundtrack so the change is not all that bad.

Halloween Jitterbug

Again this piece has really toned down the darkwave sounds as this piece is mainly composed of guitar, piano and drums which again is brought on by it's new members, I was wondering at first if they could make a halloweeny track have a jitterbug vibe but it was made very clearly and effectively that, yes it can.

Back to Halloween

This song immediately pulled me in, it started off with a piano and sounded very merrily which by Aural Vampire's standards is a definite no-no, but I was not disappointing in hearing the start, quite the opposite I loved how they tried to be different and experiment their boundaries with what is and what isn't acceptable for their band, even EXO-CHIKA has changed her vocals every so slightly to make it more cheerful tones but still this is still a very good song in my books.