If any track manages to escape the album’s uninspired sound, ‘Postcard’ is one of them. ‘Midnight Zone’ finds the band tinkering with several dream-inducing vocal styles that sound nice enough, but even the variety can't completely make up for the lifeless tone throughout the song. ‘Mediocre Love’ and ‘Is it so Much to Adore?’ could have been decent tracks, but are far too distracting with glitchy, repetitive spoken word snippets that are about as effective as a knife in a gun fight. Even during its better moments, the album is anchored down by weird, ineffective vocal effects and a stubborn refusal to progress. It may sound harsh, but there’s almost nothing to get excited about with the band’s foggy and uninteresting return. The frustrating thing is, it still sounds like Balance and Composure, but it’s as if they needlessly neutered everything interesting from their sound. On their sophomore release, Balance and Composure found a nice harmony between their gruff demeanor and a much softer approach, but Light We Made misses the mark entirely. It’s not that their shift in sound is completely unexpected – The Things We Think We’re Missing flirted with more expansive and dreamy song structures – but their third full length is missing a key ingredient that made their past efforts so convincing: passion. In an attempt to create a more hazy, ethereal listening experience, Balance and Composure’s third effort falls victim to complete boredom. If Light We Made was a dream, it would be an indistinct, forgotten fantasy by the time your eyes adjusted to the dawn’s sunlight. Nightmares aside, there are really only two kinds of dreams: there’s the kind where you vividly remember the details the next morning, and there are those instances where you know you dreamt something, but can’t remember for the life of you what it was.
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