Listen up, Montreal has released something new again: The piece of music is called "Between Door and Frame." They are not reinventing their own musical wheel here, which would have surprised me, as their concept has been quite successful for almost six years on stage now. This success is well-deserved, considering their seemingly endless live archive and the bands they have toured with, such as ZSK, the Bloodhound Gang, ELKE, and Fall Out Boy.
The guys are at home on Hamburg Records, a label with bands whose CD productions sound consistently very clean and perfectly produced (as I personally think, for example, with the last Sondaschule, Staatspunkrott, or Mofa album). Thus, with "Between Door and Frame," even with a three-man band setup, they do not hold back on parallel guitars, effects, secondary and background vocals, which ultimately creates a great sound range and a solid wall of sound. Such good production must first be achieved, and after all, you cannot produce something well that is not already good.
There are five songs on the EP, with one song being merely the remix version of the song "For the Very First Time" from the previous album "The Most Beautiful Language in the World," meaning there are four new songs to listen to. Not exactly a lot, but the EP is "only" a bridge to the waiting time for the third studio album, which is set to be released later this year. The four supposedly new songs also seem familiar to me; for example, the song "Tell Me More" musically strongly resembles the song "Black on White" from the first studio production "Everything in Black," which does not bother me, as it thus becomes the reissue of my favorite Montreal song.
Overall, the CD, measured by the four new songs, is just over ten minutes short, but for me, it is still fun pop-punk, as one likes to hear.
