You can say a lot about The Chainsmokers - and it happens a lot - but not that the two New Yorkers lack a sense of humor. When a journalist from Esquire described The Chainsmokers as 'the of electronic dance music', they simply responded by recording a mash-up of their dance floor hit Paris with How You Remind Me, the most famous hit of… Right. Bands with bad press are apparently moving towards
… each other, as evidenced by the single Something Just Like This with . The effect for the 'warned listener' is that this first full-fledged album can actually only be okay. And that's what Memories Do Not Open does. Admittedly, the 12 songs do not excel in original perspectives, but catchy songs such as the two aforementioned hits, the new single The One and the fresh Honest are really not inferior to those of, say, . If this is the hit-sensitive EDM sound of 2017, then we can be okay with that. And if not? Too bad! (RME)more