TAKIDA – All Turns Red (2014)

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TAKIDA is a Swedish sextet that has been doing some major impact in the Scandinavian charts. The guys play Modern Rock but what turned interesting to me about their music is the inclusion of strong Melodic Rock sense into their compositional style.
tAKiDA’s previous two albums were only available in Sweden, finally, their new CD “All Turns Red” is the first being released & distributed all over Europe by MusicBuyMail.

“All Turns Red” is a quite juicy album that will not stop tAKiDA from climbing the charts as well as Modern Rock radio. There’s commercial choruses and some inspiration from American bands in this genre, yet Takida adds a personal sense of melody to their instant rockers.

I hear ’90s hard rock overtones as well, and fortunately not grunge at all. No, tAKiDA is Modern Rock but catchy, riff-based and overall more guitar-focused than the bands of this ilk.
Just listen opener “I Am The World”, this rock hard, bounces and has substance. “Fail” is another jumpin’ track with a great groove and rhythm section.

Other cuts are more melodic, close to melodic rock such as “I’m Coming Home”, “As We’re Falling Down” and “It Saved Me”.
Of course there’s a ballad targeted to radio, “To Have And To Hold”, but as said before, this is much better than the usual Modern Rock garbage, with a strong melody, steady instrumentation and nice vocals.

If you wanna listen Modern Rock well done, arranged, played and produced (everything sounds polished and crystal clear) give tAKiDA a chance.
In fact, “All Turns Red” will please many Melodic Rock listeners fans of the modern side from the genre, and Swedish Rock aficionados in general.
Good Stuff.

01 – I Am The World
02 – Brimstone
03 – One Lie
04 – Purgatory (Live And Let Die)
05 – As We’re Falling Down
06 – It Saved Me
07 – I’m Coming Home
08 – To Have And To Hold
09 – Daylight
10 – Fail

Robert Pettersson – Vocals
Tomas Wallin – Guitar
Fredrik Pålsson – Bass
Kristoffer Söderström – Drums
Mattias Larsson – Guitar
Chris Rehn – Keyboards

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