Mesh – Looking Skyward

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Looking at an excellent album

After 3 ½ years 'Mesh' now present their next fully loaded album 'Looking Skyward'. This is what fans anti­cip­ated to listen to: 'Mesh' styled typ­ic­al guitar/piano Synth Pop songs in perfection.

The whole album is super catchy at the first approach. Actually you can buy blindly a 'Mesh' record and you know what you get: First class Synth Pop that won't dis­ap­point you.

A classic opening

The open­ing track 'My Protector' is a some­how-instantly-famil­i­ar-song. Here you get a clas­sic, excel­lent 'Mesh' song. 'The Last One Standing' is a per­fect song for dan­cing in a dark disco – catchy tunes under­laid by an up-tempo beat.

The sub­sequent song 'The Traps We Made' sounds much dark­er. Very well engin­eered is here the subtle imple­ment­a­tion of typ­ic­al dub­step samples, without using its beats.

The single 'Kill Your Darlings'

The song 'Kill Your Darlings' is def­in­itely one of the most out­stand­ing and heav­iest tracks on the record. This one is a guar­an­teed club hit! Rough elec­tro gui­tars and noise sample ele­ments are com­bined with melod­ic lyr­ics and mem­or­able tunes.

Brilliant, musical surprises

'Runaway' comes with a big bass beat and a slight 80s vibe. Is this track dance­able? Absolutely yes! With 'Before This World Ends' the band gives us a fant­ast­ic bal­lad to drift away into our very own dreams. The song 'Two + 1' comes up with an unusu­al wobbly-ish sound, which resolves itself towards the end. This makes the song sound very diver­si­fied in itself but also under­lines the lyr­ics perfectly.

Powerful and ener­get­ic­ally loaded comes 'The Ride' along. With less use of gui­tars this song relies on its beats. And the beats are doing their job just fine: get ready for spon­tan­eous dance out­bursts! 'The Fixer' is again a gor­geous up-tempo song with the atmo­sphere of the 'In This Place Forever' times. And – thank God – the last song isn't the cliché piano bal­lad! 'Once Surrounded' is a raw elec­tron­ic song with a ser­i­ous mood.

Verdict for 'Looking Skyward'

'Mesh' per­forms in the same league as bands like 'Camouflage', 'De/Vision' or 'Beborn Beton'. For 20 years the boys from Bristol have been provid­ing us with grand inde­pend­ent Synth Pop music. And with their new album 'Looking Skyward' they landed on the right air­port again. Get ready for take-off with this new album now!

By the way, this album also made it into our art­icle ‘The best Synth Pop and genre-related albums 2016‘. Read now.

Track By Track Rating

Mesh - Looking Skyward
Mesh – Looking Skyward
My Protector
Tactile
The Last One Standing
The Traps We Made
Kill Your Darlings
Iris
Runway
Before This World Ends
Two+1
The Ride
There Must Be A Way
The Fixer
Once Surrounded
Recommend
Kill Your Darlings
My Protector
The Ride
Weak
Iris
4.2
Heavenly

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  1. 4.8

    Well I am sad to say that it took me this long to find this band although I was listen­ing to them in the 90's as Depeche Mode knock offs on Napster and did not real­ize it. I recently cleaned out a stor­age bin and found one of those burnt albums. It had a great song that soun­ded like Depeche. So I scoured the inter­net and found Mesh. I down­loaded look­ing Skyward and have been hooked ever since. I know I prob­ably fell across their best lyr­ics ever but what a way to start. I love Depeche and yes their cur­rent stuff is hard to take unless its a Dominatrix remix. Mesh stands on their own. I wish they had more of a US pres­ence. I had great seats to see Depeche in Tampa and the hur­ricane can­celed that but I would love to see Mesh in concert. 

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    Tactile
    The Last One Standing
    The Traps We Made
    Kill Your Darlings
    Iris
    Runway
    Before This World Ends
    Two+1
    The Ride
    There Must Be A Way
    The Fixer
    Once Surrounded
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My Protector
Tactile
The Last One Standing
The Traps We Made
Kill Your Darlings
Iris
Runway
Before This World Ends
Two+1
The Ride
There Must Be A Way
The Fixer
Once Surrounded
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