In 2020 the band Di-Rect celebrates its 20th anniversary. After the group from The Hague changed frontman in 2009, it started to sound wider and wider. On Wild Hearts you don't hear much back of the sound the group once broke through. Born Again is therefore a perfectly chosen opening track, because in it you can hear how heavily the gentlemen lean on synthesizers this time. After
Rolling With The… Punches (2017) the band chooses again for a different sound, although they still cling to the same energy. Part of the album was already recorded in Berlin, but when the band members came home from corona, the rest of the songs were written separately. Resilience and hope are therefore important themes on this album and frontman Marcel Veenendaal knows that with his impressive voice. (JvQ)more
