Mobile Orchestra

Description

Mobile Orchestra is the fifth studio album by the American synthpop artist Owl City (singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young), released on Republic Records in July 2015, a division of Universal Music Group.

Having been endorsed by Joe Public (‘Mobile Orchestra’ climbed high into America’s Hot 200), vilified by some critics (New York Daily Times wrote “everything on the album sounds as if it was recorded by children or trolls”) and supported by Cross Rhythms radio (who have selected for their playlist «Thunderstruck (feat. Sarah Russell)», «Unbelievable (feat. Hanson)», «Can’t Live Without You» and «This Isn’t The End»), it only remains for your favourite Internet reviewer to add his six penn’orth about this album. The truth is Adam Young does pop better than just about anyone else around at the moment, Christian or non-Christian. Whether you enjoy dancefloor delights like the catchy opener «Verge (feat. Aloe Blacc)» or veer more towards the dreamy vibe that turned «Fireflies» into that multi-million seller, you’ll find on «I Found Love» the synth pop maestro hardly puts a foot wrong. The latter song takes on the theme of God’s love (“So lead me home and lift me up above the stars and even higher/I’m not afraid because your love falls like rain and burns like fire”). Not all of Adam’s lyrics deal with the divine of course. The track with Hanson uses some colourful snapshots of childhood nostalgia (“When I was a kid I ate Spaghettios, played laser tag and GI Joe/And if you vowed ‘no girls allowed’ then you could join my club/When I was a kid I spent my Saturdays blowing on Nintendo cards/The newest thing was Lion King and I could feel the love.”) Adam continues his winning way with memorable imagery right through to the close «This Isn’t The End» sensitively dealing with issues like abandonment and suicide. The hipster reviewers may call Owl City shallow and cheesy. But the hipster reviewers are wrong. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, March 2016]

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CD tracklist:

01. Verge (feat. Aloe Blacc) – 3:33
02. I Found Love – 3:39
03. Thunderstruck (feat. Sarah Russell) – 4:07
04. My Everything – 3:45
05. Unbelievable (feat. Hanson) – 3:13
06. Bird With a Broken Wing – 3:55
07. Back Home (feat. Jake Owen) – 3:09
08. Can’t Live Without You – 3:11
09. You’re Not Alone (feat. Britt Nicole) – 3:55
10. This Isn’t the End – 3:23

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