Dutch guitar pop / rock band Rosenfeld probably figured that reviewers in general only listen to the first three or four songs on a CD. I can’t think of any other reason why the quality of this album drops drastically after the first couple of songs. Too bad, because the first impression I got of this band was quite positive. Just look at the fine 40 colored paged artwork, alone worth buying this album, and you can see that no energy was spared to create a beautiful product. The album starts out perfect with “Perfect”, powerful up tempo guitars, moody bass and drums and energetic vocals. Considering the fact that this one is the obvious single I definitely appreciate the rough growling guitars (instead of carefully polished shit you usually hear in singles). The band simply amazes with the experimental “Is Julie There?”, starting out with just vocals slowly evolving into painfully beautiful atmospheric rock ( ala The Gathering).

“Loss” is the first of five failures on the album. The vocals in the vein of Ilse de Lange (some consider this to be a compliment) don’t fit the music at all, resulting in a messy track that should have ended up in the dustbin, not on the album. The band recaptures itself in the end with songs like “I You Don’t Mind” and the title track a brilliantly structured atmospheric rock song. The subdued vocals on the latter absolutely bring out the best of female vocalist Digna Janssen, making this one of the best tracks on the album. The band compares itself with Alanis Morrissette and K’s Choice. Personally I think that his reference only applies to the vocals. “You Won’t Feel A Thing” has its ups and downs. There are some really, really good tracks on the album, leaving you wondering how Rosenfeld managed to write any of the really, really bad songs on ‘YWFAT’.