Earthwalk
Cosmos People
On their second full-length album, kooky Taiwanese band Cosmos People continue to exude fun and humour.
Lead vocalist Xiao Yu sings on the electropop opening track Let’s Go Running Together: “Let’s go running together, don’t say no/Our rhythm is two breaths in, puke it out”.
The trio happily play around with diverse musical genres. Just take Xiang Jian Xiao Lu, Xiang Jian Xiao Lu (Country Roads, Shoulder Peekaboo – a title that puns on how both things sound alike in Mandarin), which melds country music with violins.
Want To Turn You Into A Movie, on the other hand, is more mainstream guitar pop with lyrics that reference film: “You dance a Chaplin, so quietly black-and-white/The city’s lights are extinguished because of you”.
While it is good that they are keenly exploring the musical universe, this trip of an album also means it is hard to get a fix on their identity.
Sticking closer to earth for their next outing might not be a bad idea.
(ST)