After the brilliant Good Old Underground, Ewian have rewarded us with another album only year later. We Need Monsters might have arrived a bit too early… Good Old Underground was perfectly balanced between Muse and Radiohead, while We Need Monsters is a sequel. With that being said, the sequel falls behind the debut because the songs are weaker and they are only mimicking their earlier sisters.
The songs are dressed in experimentation. The sound is a bit more dreamy, with easy moments now and there that usually kick off in strong choruses. Perfect example is Beautiful Lie. Cold-warm game is dominant strategy on the album and it can take you both ways. You might get excited or repulsed.
The only thing I really really really didn’t like about the album is a track called Star. It is a copy of everything that was holy on the first album. The song certainly has commercial potential, but the replication just comes of as cheesy.
Monster sounds very pumped up and boring because it is so slow that it made me annoyed. Why? Well, because I felt the pretentious aspiration in it, instead of feeling the emotion it was supposed to deliver. The same effect of wanting to skip the track reoccurs few times on the album, especially in its second part.
While Ewian offered fresh and interesting songs on their previous album, this one seems just too repetitive and reductive. There is a lack of new ideas and the songs are suffering. The first part is too similar and the second part is too slow. However, Ewian are still rookies and maybe We Need Monsters was a necessary lesson for them in order to become greater.
