School Is Cool is a Belgian band that won Humo's Rock Rally in 2010 and released their debut album Entropology a year and a half later. The band describes the style as a mix of energetic punk and complex baroque arrangements, in which influences from Pixies and Kate Bush go hand in hand with eighteenth-century music and exotic drum parts. The hammer on those baroque elements actually applies especially
… to Entropology. At Nature Fear the emphasis is more on synthesizer-driven indie pop. The record opens very daringly with the beautifully produced Black Dog Pan, a song that can measure itself lyrically and productionally with the better Radiohead work. The rest of the songs are also of a high level and very creative and innovative on the record. School Is Cool has not been going on that long, but you can't hear that: the band knows exactly what they are doing. The quality of the songs, of the production, of the arrangements, of the lyrics is so high that we can already say, on the second record, this is out of category. Musically speaking the album is a bit flatter and less baroque than Entropology, but Nature Fear surpasses its predecessor in terms of creativity and originality. Do you like grand and compelling, but especially innovative? Listen to School Is Cool. That's not advice, that's homework. For your own good. (HF) but Nature Fear surpasses its predecessor in terms of creativity and originality. Do you like grand and compelling, but especially innovative? Listen to School Is Cool. That's not advice, that's homework. For your own good. (HF) but Nature Fear surpasses its predecessor in creativity and originality. Do you like grand and compelling, but especially innovative? Listen to School Is Cool. That's not advice, that's homework. For your own good. (HF)more
