Akute. "Nie Isnuje"

The second album is a serious challenge for the band that was so lucky with its first disc. The band’s debut album “Girls and Space” was called one of the best releases of 2011. Akute decided not to try doing more than they could in “Nie Isnuje”. You can still recognize the band just by listening to the very first sounds – they have not lost their melodic despite the fact that the brisk space romanticism has been replaced with dark and depressive topics. The sound of the majority of “Nie Isnuje” songs is lighter and the tempo is faster than in the first album.

 The disc starts with the single “Blood like water”. The song is still not trying to describe the real horrors of hell. But Akute promised us such a trip in “Nie Isnuje”. The guys approach the gate of hell in “They are under snow” and kick the gate in “Needles”. By the way, sound producer Yauhen Suhavei suddenly turned the guitar into organ in “Needles”.

Dynamic melodies accompany the gloomy lyrics: the guys wrote a lot of verses about love, death, revenge, painful memories and other weaknesses for “Nie Isnuje” which adds some special depth to songs like “Hospital”.

Speaking about the songs like “Fire”, “Happiness” and “Loneliness” catching you at the very beginning, you will not have to wait for them until the end of the disc in “Nie Isnuje” – “explosive” tracks like “Calm like my death” and “My homeland” can be found in the middle of the album.

Melancholic topics painted with gloomy colours are like a stream pouring through the whole album. Even the “funny” song “My homeland” promises that “the best will die anyway” and that “the darkness will touch you”. The fact that one of the best songs in the album are “Hospital” and “Calm like my death” prepares listeners to Akute’s manifest of death.

Besides these hits, the album contains a really absurd thriller  - “Sticky”. It is easy to imagine such a song performed by “Agatha Christie”. It is sad and severe.

Akute’s “Nie Isnuje” is rock for those who have been disappointed in their fantasies. The transparent and carefree “Star” will make sensitive people dream. There is detachment and longing for something beyond it.  

By the way, there are no “drags” in the album. However, I hope that we can forgive the hypnotically charming Mahilyou band for it.