{"id":26252,"date":"2020-10-16T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2022-05-29T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T16:25:12","slug":"painted-romans-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/painted-romans-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Romans – Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Painted Romans<\/span><\/strong> featured in our news section just one month ago with their last single. In that occasion, we wrote some lines about the career of Mats Davidsen who is now back with this new EP, entitled Heart<\/span><\/em> that has been released today in digital and in a very limited CD edition (although the CD is going to be delayed \"\"due to some technical problems). This is the first album of\u00a0Painted Romans<\/span><\/strong> in ten years and, as Mats Davidsen says, it\u2019s a come back to his origins, a work related to the music he was doing with his former band Wallpaper Silhouettes<\/span><\/strong>, one of the few Norwegian post-punk acts. He will be performing the album (that you can listen to and buy here<\/span><\/a><\/strong>) tonight, all the info can be found on the left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In\u00a0Heart, <\/span><\/em>we can find six songs that will take us to different parts and moments of the eighties, but, don\u2019t get me wrong,\u00a0this is more than a trip down memory lane. The album starts with \u201cFall\u201d where Mats sings with passion backed by some inspired guitars. The album continues with \u201cForget\u201d, a track that makes me think of the sophisticated and dark <\/span>pop\/rock from the eighties. \u201cDrive Me On\u201d sounds like INXS <\/span><\/strong>but with a more elegant sound. It\u2019s very catchy and danceable and it could have been a hit in our favorite decade. We already knew \u201cFormation\u201d as it was the first single and we reviewed<\/span><\/a> it last month. The melancholy of \u201cFormation\u201d is also present in<\/span> \u201cNew Kind\u201d, a kind of continuation t<\/span>hat shares the same lyrics. The class that Roxy Music<\/span><\/strong> pate<\/span>nted at the beginning of the eighties appears at the beginning of \u201cTreat Yourself\u201d until some post-punk guitars make their entrance in what can possibly be the best moment of the EP for post-punk lovers.<\/span>\u00a0Listening to this EP, we can feel that Mats Davidsen has put much of his heart in it, but he has also used brilliantly his head to dress his melodies in the best way possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>

Heart has been written, performed and produced Mats Davidsen, with Patrick Wray and Roxy Dunn on vocals on Drives Me On and former Wallpaper Silhouettes<\/span><\/strong> and Painted Romans<\/span><\/strong> member Jo Henning Dahl\u00f8 Lien playing acoustic drums on \u201cForget\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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