Owl City - The Midsummer Station. Photo / Supplied.
If you weren't already an Owl City fan, then electro-pop whiz-kid Adam Young is unlikely to win you over with his fourth LP, The Midsummer Station.
In fact, even dedicated fans of previous releases may well be put off - he's lost the old charming whimsy to overly bombastic, plastic
production on this album.
There's no doubt Young knows how to write strong hooks, but many of these 11 tracks feel like they could've been written by an algorithm.
Working with producers like Stargate (Rihanna, Katy Perry, etc) every track sounds like a shiny, punchy, top 40 hit, but there's not much to emotionally engage the listener.
The opening two songs (Dreams and Disasters and Shooting Star) actually sound like they could've been written for Ms Perry, but with Young's thin vocal delivery they don't really take off.
