Cheese can't be truly appreciated without a glass of wine and salty crackers. There are people out there in the world who claim that something considered "cheesy" to them must be avoidable at all costs, without even taking into account that there's both good and outright terrible food made from milk. Danish-Norwegian Eurodance project Aqua fall into the middle: sometimes their dairy works and sometimes it doesn't quite click. The band's sophomore full-length record Aquarius came during a time when the interest in Aqua's core genre had waned, thereby having shittier commercial success than Aquarium. Whereas the previous album housed many similar-sounding songs, studio offering #2 demonstrated the outfit's willingness to experiment via acoustic instruments and different sounds such as country and Latin while maintaining the trademark style. Aquarius is simply okay like its antecedent, but if there's any consolation, I'd rather take these over Megalomania in a heartbeat. Angel recommends: "Cartoon Heroes," "We Belong to the Sea," "Halloween," and "Aquarius".
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