Mmm, nice glossy card packaging, and a cool little fold out lyric sheet that has a sticker you have to peel off to open it, almost like a letter in an envelope. Cute. Now there’s an idea, one of these sort of bands really should put it’s lyric sheets in sealed envelopes.
I digress. Unison are running down the melodic and rocking emo path, borrowing from all the usual sources, including Texas Is The Reason as well as every emo band that uses those pleasant sounding slow guitars. Now, where I rubbished a couple of other bands for being straight forward rip off merchants, Sweden’s Unison are actually quite handy at constructing a song. “Dive Into” does all the right things in the right places, getting slow, and then coming back for a rockout to finish. Sure, the sound quality is like a demo, but whatever. “Body Power” is slower, and has emocore guitars, but also has a bit more of an indie feel to it. Ultimately nothing special though.
Once you turn it over you have “My Fault”, and the singer’s high pitched vocals are beginning to bug me. Same sort of thing as the 2 previous songs. Nice background music, but ultimately no big deal. A bit Beezewax-ish in places. Things are rounded off with “Careless Thoughts”, where Unison finally ditch their middling emocore for some jangly and slow acoustic niceness. And it makes for a pleasing change. Cool.
Not bad, but nowhere near essential.