Shape Of Water – ‘Great Illusions’
Imagine it: cool wind in your face, hot summer sun on your back and all the time in the world as you cruise down the scenery of *insert dream road trip destination here* in your *insert dream road trip car here*. It’s not exactly a genre of sorts but everyone has those songs and those artists they know would play on that classic vehicular holiday. It’s not clear as to whether the Manchester-based duo Shape of Water intended to create an album of this nature, but ultimately echoing the scope of classic desert art-rock bands is what ‘Great Illusions’ does best. While it doesn’t quite reach the staggering highs of that upon which it has built itself, its production’s interplay between scope and instrumentation, along with some killer vocal performances, still leaves it a memorable record. The...
