Shout Out Louds - Optica
Genre: Indie Pop/Synth-pop
Year: 2013
Place of Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
General Pace: Mellow-moderate
Worst Song: "Sugar." Nasally vocals. Would not have chosen that as the opener. Vocals smoothed out after that, though.
Best Song: I liked the last two minutes of "Glasgow" the best. Honorable mention: "Hermila."
The electronic parts of
Optica are reminiscent of '80s-sounding pop, but the rock parts of this group sounded like any other indie band out there, sorry to say. It's not until track 9, "Hermila," where the band allows cracks in their veneer in order to let the audience in, if only briefly, but by that point I had simply lost interest. Overall, pretty safe and bland stuff.