Grand Avenue – Place To Fall

Releasedate: 08-03-2010; Label: Playground Music
By: Nina Mende

Grand Avenue is a rock band from Denmark formed in 2001. The band consists of Rasmus Walter-Hansen (vocals, guitar), Niels-Kristian Bærentzen (guitar), Marc Stebbing (bass) and Hjalte Thygesen (drums). The four band members met at a musical college in London in 1997. Frontman Walter-Hansen and lead guitarist Bærentzen started to write songs together, and with the addition of Stebbing and Thygesen Grand Avenue was formed. Grand Avenue’s fourth album “Place to Fall” was released on 28 September 2009 in Denmark. The first single from the album was “Almost gone”. Now this album is also released outside of Denmark.

The album starts out psychedelic and dreaming. As I have been listening to it I have been amazed how gorgeous this album is. But as it came to putting it into words, I was speechless. Still unsure how to describe this album to you without saying “Go get it and find it out for yourself”, here is my attempt:
The songs all have catchy tunes, varying between slow and fast, even within a song so it never get’s boring but keeps your attention. “Follow You Down” is an awesome and touchy song, this one definitely goes underneath your skin. “Black Heart” has some nice guitar riffs. “She Leads The Parade” is a slow song whereas “Waiting For The World” is catchy again. Some songs contain some groovy bass tunes. All in all this album is simply brilliant. I hope I could give you a small insight of it with that, now go enjoy it yourself.

Tracklist: 01. Almost gone 02. Nowhere now 03. Follow you down 04. Black heart 05. Control 06. She leads the parade 07. Waiting for the world 08. These days 09. Coming up 10. Place to fall

Links:
Grand Avenue MySpace
Grand Avenue Official