{"id":71516,"date":"2018-10-31T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=71516"},"modified":"2018-10-30T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:03:52","slug":"review-normandie-white-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-normandie-white-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Normandie \u2013\u00a0White Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-71517 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/482513-500x500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In 2016, Swedish four-piece <strong>Normandie\u00a0<\/strong>released their debut record \u2018<em>Inguz\u2019,<\/em>\u00a0gaining plenty of praise for their big, arena-filling rock-anthems akin to new-wave Bring Me The Horizon among others. Two years down the line, the quartet proudly presents their sophomore effort <em>\u2018White Flag\u2019,<\/em> a record that captures all the punch of its predecessor in a continuation of their strong\u00a0sound.<\/p>\n<p>As you may come to expect following on from \u2018<em>Inguz\u2019<\/em>, there\u2019s a handful of sing-along, big-crowd-at-a-festival-worthy choruses, and vocal splicing to hone in on the most important words of a song title, like on the flowing feasts of \u2018<em>Dead\u2019 <\/em>and <em>\u2018Maniacs\u2019. <\/em>The vocal melodies are a particularly memorable and catchy element of the record too, with quick switches between sweet falsettos and full-throttle, bursts of intensity, like on \u2018<em>(Don\u2019t) Need You\u2019 <\/em>and opener \u2018<em>Ecstasy\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the production is <em>very\u00a0<\/em>glossy, anything other or lesser than supremely tight production would mask the grand-rock style that <strong>Normandie<\/strong> are trying to create here. It works for the most part too, with the guitars consistently sounding beefy, the drums feeling like they\u2019re hammering into your eardrums, and the added elements of electronics creating an extra dimension of grandness that lifts the powerfulness of the record, on moments such as \u2018<em>Heaven\u2019 <\/em>and \u2018<em>Enough\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Normandie - Enough (Official Music Video)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vfW7-Bixpk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Bell\u2019 <\/em>offers something a little different to the rest of the ballsy alt-rock, with the 1975-esque, multi-layered, harmonised vocals, amid gentle folk-sprung acoustic guitars. There\u2019s also a chance for vocalist Phillip Strand to deliver a verse in his native, Swedish tongue, which comes as a pleasant surprise. \u2018<em>Keep Fucking This Up\u2019 <\/em>has a similar pop tone to it too, with a hint of cowbell and a repetitively catchy chorus that\u2019s incredibly easy and enjoyable to keep revisiting.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018White Flag\u2019 <\/em>serves as a perfectly suited follow-up to <strong>Normandie<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0debut LP, albeit if it doesn\u2019t push too many new buttons. What the record does do, however, is stay consistent to its predecessors\u2019 quality and offers 12-tracks full of hooks, mosh-worthy moments and grandiose vocal belts for a live setting.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018White Flag\u2019<\/em> by <strong>Normandie <\/strong>is out now on <strong>Easy Life Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Normandie <\/strong>links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.normandieofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/normandieofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreNormandie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/normandieofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Dylan Tuck (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanJTuck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DylanJTuck<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Normandie provide 12-tracks full of hooks, mosh-worthy moments and grandiose&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,15698,1051,1622,16108],"class_list":["post-71516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-dylan-tuck","tag-easy-life-records","tag-normandie","tag-white-flag"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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