Single Review: In Golden Tears – Underneath The Balance

Hamburg, Germany based indie rockers In Golden Tears are creating a significant buzz around themselves and their music after releasing just one single. Despite having only formed around a year ago, the band have already made great strides, and despite their relative lack of tunes the band has already completed a full UK headline tour as well as receiving lots of acclaim and attention from the blogosphere.

The follow up to their widely acclaimed debut track ‘Urban Emotions’ is called ‘Underneath The Balance’, and the song is very much a modern, pop/rock track in the grand Coldplay tradition. Featuring chiming guitars, thumping drums and walls of synthesizers, it ticks all the boxes of an archetypal arena rock song. The cherry on the rich cake is singer Patrick H Kowalewski’s earnest and powerful falsetto and a lighter in the air chorus, meaning ‘Underneath The Balance’ is sure to build the band’s growing popularity further, and be a fixture of their upcoming European tour and the festivals they are set to play this coming summer.

Judging by this track alone, In Golden Tears don’t sound like they will be a game changing, epochal band in the vein of their fellow countrymen Can and Kraftwerk, but the relative newcomers from Hamburg could yet go on and become another majorly successful German musical export.

‘Underneath The Balance’ is out in the UK on April 23rd via Humming Records / Rough Trade as a limited edition 7” and digital download.

By William David Wilson
@wdwilso2