This is part 2 of a 3 part series of EPs that Vincent Smith is putting out while on tour this year. The first one was excellent, and it's not like I had any hope for it after the terrible third album. I mean that this was bad. Once the popularity and festival fame hit, it went to his head and his music lost the 'soul' half of the sound, leaving nothing but glitchy electro, even going a little dubstep in some places... Anyone can make that, and it wasn't even good. So he came back strong stuffing the soul back into the sound on these EPs, bringing back that urban rainy night thing.
The six tracks on the EP are pretty long, seven minute average. Usually thats not a problem for a pretty lights song. Hell, Take Away The Sun is a solid ten minutes, and it's a great track. The difference now is that those tracks would travel, the song would progress and go somewhere, the tracks on the new EP are just too tedious. I guess it's just an EP so it's not a huge problem. But my biggest disappointment towards the new EP is that there's nothing that sounds like the unique Understand Me Now from part 1 of the EP series. I almost expected it lack anything like it, because it was just so incredibly good, his most soulful sound, no question.
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