ALBUM REVIEW: There’s Love In This World If You Want It – Higher Power

Approaching their sound with curiosity and the willingness to experiment, HIGHER POWER find wonder and weirdness on There’s Love In This World If You Want It. This eclecticism only further cements HIGHER POWER’s uniqueness, and pushes their sound into a new, and ever-evolving realm that is more colourful and more intriguing than ever before. 

Previously released single Absolute Bloom opens the album with a sun drenched, melodic punch. The hooks are catchy, and the track bolsters out to command your attention. Toeing the line between hardcore and alternative sounds, Absolute Bloom asserts that HIGHER POWER are less interested in labels and genre boxes, and are more compelled by expressive, bold tracks and liberating their creative voices. 

Sonically, HIGHER POWER move in a more melodic direction on There’s Love In This World If You Want It than on previous albums. From the twirling riffs of Better, to the entrancing solos on Lunar Tuesday, the album takes various turns down hypnotic avenues. These moments decorate the album with a compelling weirdness, and a creative approach that sees the group following their sound into exciting new territories, whilst remaining true to an authenticity in their curiosity that sees them making the kind of music that only HIGHER POWER could.  

This wonder is paired with an emotional vulnerability that defines the growth found on the album. On Better, HIGHER POWER craft an incredible hook in its chorus, whilst punctuating the album’s overall fixation on embracing what the world has to offer you. There’s Love Out There If You Want It is as much about realising that you have to stop running and have to face the world to embrace all it has to offer, as it is about them facing their sound and embracing all of the unique directions it could take them. 

Exploration never compromises energy however. Bolstering the album with tenacity amidst its melodic sways, exploration is balanced with dynamic and high-impact moments. On Count The Miles, the guitars and drums pummel forwards and encapsulate the force behind the band. Similarly, Two Doors Down is as explosive as it is atmospheric, and Kaleidoscope demonstrates HIGHER POWER’s ability to write a chorus that soars out of the track.

Each of these elements come to a head in the final track My Sweet Surrender. As the track builds to the album’s euphoric end, grooves meet grit and the track wonderfully surmises the exploration that defines the album. There’s Love In This World If You Want It has found HIGHER POWER travelling down the varying creative paths that have interested them, and My Sweet Surrender ties them up brilliantly, with a grinning sense that this is just the beginning of the creative liberation HIGHER POWER are embracing. 

There’s Love In This World If You Want It exhibits not only resilience, but curiosity and wonder in the face of it all. HIGHER POWER balance emotional revelations and candour with a curiosity that finds them consistently pushing their sound. Yet, it is quintessentially HIGHER POWER because of this; unique, energetic, and authentically vibrant.

Rating: 8/10

There’s Love In This World If You Want It is out now via Nuclear Blast Records. 

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