AEREOGRAMME - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go Review

I'll begin this review with a little honesty: I’ve been sat facing my computer screen for around half an hour, digitally pencilling and scratching out lines for an introduction to Aereogramme's fourth full-length album, My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go. I've tried many different methods: punchy one-liners strewn with no structure, elegant passages littered with poetic terminology, even a dick joke....full text If bigger is better, biggest is best. That has long appeared to be the motto of Aereogramme. But the ambitious Scottish indie-rockers have never taken it to heart -- and put it into practice -- the way they do on their third album.

My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go is massive and epic and grand and monumental and sweeping and cinematic and romantic as its overly wordy title would suggest. ...full text If your life entails lying in bed on your side, staring at the wall as the sun moves the light across your room with each passing minute, listening to Aereogramme will certainly inspire you to leap out of bed to face the world with arms blazing and renewed sense of self. Of course, the serious pillow talk you're having with your lovely beau will have to wait. ...full text