All good things come to an end, just as The Soundtrack Of Our Lives released their last album a few years ago. It is crucial to recognize when is the right moment to say goodbye. Many have an issue with that. When you departure at the pinnacle, a special kind of esotery is left behind you and your band.
Frontmen of the band, Ebbot Lundberg was scrutinized under the magnified glass after The Soundtrack of Our Lives called it off. He was a guy who assembled the group of youngsters around himself, called them The Indigo Children, and continued where TSOOL had stopped. The only difference is that the manner is a bit more acoustic and pop.
Ebott released the album in Sweden on his 50th birthday. Evidently, it was important to him. The album came out worldwide two months later. For The Ages To Come is somewhat personal album, probably because he released it under his name. It lacks the ability to pack the songs with subsidiary polish. A good portion of songs are left behind the peaks of the album, so we have got an unfocused material.
As I have mentioned before, the songs are a decent successor of TSOOL. It is still a Swedish version of Britpop and indie rock, meaning that most of the songs will get under your skin pretty easy, at least the radiophonic ones. Those are the ones that were released as singles.
You can feel the breeze of Sweden all over the record, especially in intros where melancholy and reverie conquest your heart with vulnerability and romanticism. Just listen to I See Forever and you will understand. Contrary to that track, there are few upbeat numbers that might just be the most debilitated songs on For The Ages To Come. Don’t Blow Your Minds is the worst.
The opening track For The Ages To Come and the closing track To Be Continued seem like the strongest pieces of the mosaic. Does Ebbot thinks that the cover of the book is more important than the content? Let’s just leave this rhetoric question here.
Backdrop People sounds like it lurks somewhere on the TSOOL’s album Behind The Music. It shows his inclination to satisfies his fanbase. Following this song, we get a bundle of mediocre numbers that do not succeed to leave any impression.
Ebbot Lundberg and The Indigo Children are solid Swedish rock band who is skillful in mixing retro rock with dreamy melodies and catchy choruses. Will it become more than that, it depends on the ages to come.
