HotWave Landy热浪

Category: Music
Genre: Pop
Artist: Landy 温岚


Since her last album, the greatest hit collection, it's been almost 2 years. I'm still dulging into her old songs like "Blue Rain蓝色雨", "Back to Love爱回温".... and also one of everyone's favourites (Tat day karaoke with the starceleb contestants)"祝我生日快乐". Her ballads is always my favourite all the while.

Joining the new record label, SEED Music, Landy releasing her 1st solo studio album in 3 years, HotWave热浪. I don't like this album much on the first fews listens, however, it sounds like a very commercial cheesy album, but it stills carries a very strong Landy's element--the classic listen. This album manages to match up to her previous work, if not better. Can't comparable to Elva, Jolin or Yanzi, her works is more timeless classic than mainstream pop market. Anyhow, it's a pop album.

Spinning off first with the hot on topic-"hot erotic naked man" MV of hotwave热浪,a 80's-electro-pop disco track, to goes with the VOGUE dance moves of the 80's, to create a new trendsetting in pop world. Follows by the must-have track, ballad-"fool傻瓜". written by Kenji Wu, who now wrote much of the hits ballad songs under the same label, e.g.valen hsu's hao teng(good listen) This also becomes another big wave of karaoke hits.

Landy always poses a very good two sides of her, slow and uptempo beats, which in this album she balances it very well. Too bad it gets too predictable. Not much of surpise. Ballads like Pocket口袋 and Brotherhood同手同腳 both very high possibility become another karaoke hits too, and to the surprise, Landy had written the lyrics not just these 2 songs, another 4 as well. Uptempo tracks like Sevilla塞爾維亞舞曲, A happy symbol開心符號, and the one produce by the Invisible Man. (Hanjin)Blower喇叭嘴, a very crunk & B influence.

Surprise track would be The Flower Thief採花賊,the china folklore tune, and OS OS不一樣, a new trend of duet with TOTEM圖騰樂團 about love relationship. Why love always hot before you have your hands on? And cools down when you had it?

Landy had been well known to her record company as a slow producing artist, and it seems it's getting longer by albums. I would say, however, a worth of wait.