Wild Heart by Dos Brains Review

I was looking for albums that have been released in 2025, and I came across a group that I've never heard before. This is a complete blind reaction and review, so I'm intrigued to see what it will be. Let's get started with something fun and new!

Track 1: Fly Child

I very quickly realised that this album would be some epic, cinematic music. And I am ALL for it. The great sounding drums in the background underneath some beautiful strings gliding across in a brilliant melody. Some deep and powerful horns that are spaced out to not be too overwhelming and give some big impacts every so often. The rapid strings going back and forth in staccato ways is amazing before it goes into a great collection of sustained chords gliding back and forth in volume and pitch. The constant drums adding great rhythm and force to keep the momentum. This sounds like perfect trailer music, which is honestly a positive and negative. When you have just the music and there are the moments of rapid hits or open spaces, it feels rather forced. This feels like music made in hopes of getting big. Don't get me wrong, the music is incredible and perfectly epic in every aspect, but just feels a little bit forced. Still, massive fan and would listen to it everyday if I could. Just a lot of great horns, strings, and percussion coming together.

Track 2: Valley Of Light

A bit more of a softer, somber start with beautiful piano keys and some subtle flutes rising with some heavenly strings. The low sub bass or kick drum, whatever it is isn't my favorite addition to it and distracts me a little bit. We get into a section that sounds more like a classical piece with constantly shifting music evolving and changing around in a great way. Something that sounds so beautiful and epic. I like this one because it still has its moments of sounding like epic trailer music, but it does have moments of sounding more like a true piece you would hear in a movie scene. Some incredibly powerful strings and a horn melody that I absolutely love. Sounds so beautiful and awesome, with multiple drops that sound too similar to me to boost it up a bit, but everything else is at top form and sounds great. I'm also a fan of the massive build towards the end with the wild drum hits, rapid strings, and brass runs.

Track 3: Tales Of A Thousand Cities

This was my realisation of what this album was going to be. We get a beautiful flute melody and some distant strings and drums. Honestly, it made me try to imagine or hear like some talking over it from a movie. It feels like it would fit in with a Lord of The Rings type trailer, or a similar story. Something with peaceful people suddenly being attacked by evil forces. This piece is one that actually feels like it tells a powerful story that you can create and follow along with inside of your mind. A great way to go back into like old classical music, with different instruments and motifs representing specific characters or things. The choir sounds incredible, the percussion is unique and sounds awesome, the strings are much more punches that are great, and I can't tell if they are horns or more of a synth like thing, but they sound great. There isn't a real melody to this one though in the main section. Just a bunch of hits and runs and harmonies that sound great, but I just wish there was more of something to properly catch my ear and too focus on. Something that was more than just a epic soundscape type of thing.

Track 4: Adventure Of Lifetime

We get the start with some more serious, low drones and some beautiful sounding piano notes. This one has some added synth elements to make it sound different and stand out, which I greatly appreciate. Something that feels new and original compared to others out there, which might stick to solely orchestral instruments or only synths. This mixes them together pretty amazingly into a pretty awesome soundscape of elements. Some great fx in the background. The drop is also welcome as it doesn't go into something too heavy and hard, but more relaxed almost like a fake out before the synth riser comes in to really hit you with the power. An awesome arrangement with perfect instrumentation that I am a massive fan of. Super great to hear and comes in hot, even if it is a little short for my liking. But when you make music like this, I guess you can't exactly go too overboard or over the top with it.

Track 5: Wondrous Land

I am a massive fan of the piano melody in the beginning. It sounds like it would be a perfect motif for a character to be used in a movie. I am such a fan, and I love the addition of things like timpanis that don't get enough love in modern music like this. The strings sound so incredibly beautiful with some awesome back and forth between the highs and lows. Some beautiful flute runs in the distance repeating the same motif throughout, sounding so cool and like proper classical music from previous centuries. This music actually feels so regal and powerful. Like the theme for a royal family in control that you actually want to root for. An uplifting, hopeful tone that is greatly appreciated. Just music that would make you feel good and happy.

Track 6: Surf The Waves

We get a super low bass tone. I can not properly tell if it is a super low double bass or synth, but it sounds horrifying in a great way. Like a haunting monster, which matched with the tubular bells and haunting background strings is incredible. Long, stretched out tones that are piercing and unnerving. A great string melody that goes into a very early drop and some cool synth bass melodic things. The strings adding one by one to build and build and build into something cool and unique, getting crazier and crazier while the unnatural synth stays constant and present. Another drop with some rolling drums, yet we again don't get anything too hard yet. It continues to build with the addition of drum hits and fills over strings and very faint horns. A great high pitched melody from both strings and brass matching and harmonising sounds so magical and wonderful. It keeps going and going and building before we finally get the proper drop. Some bigger, harder drums and a new string melody with supporting horns. It is not the most over the top one ever, but that makes it more enjoyable to me. It feels more subdued and held back in he best possible way.

Track 7: Freedom Spirit

I'm a huge fan of pieces that start off with something nice and peaceful, gradually and slowly building throughout. This piece is very well subdued and perfectly crafted in the beginning, building very slowly with some great percussion and artistic strings and horns that mostly do long, stretched out tones over pads that rise and fall melodically without sounding too much like a leading voice. The strings are perfect, if a bit too far back in the mix for me. Same goes for the percussion in certain sections. The piano is not used to it's fullest potential, and the cymbal hits sound quite artificial to me. That might be the fact that I've never heard a cymbal like it, but it sounds cool. Not quite 100% artificial, but perhaps heavily produced. Cymbals are a tricky thing to make sound authentic. But the constant rising and building is quite nice, even if it never really properly reaches a climax. Just a lot of builds into softer and more emotive moments. That's not necessarily bad, and it is great to vary things up, but felt a little lacklustre in all.

Track 8: Wild Heart

Due to this being the title track, I am expecting this one to be the most heavily polished and complex. It has some beautiful piano notes in the beginning, leading into a cymbal roll and some great percussion in the background. A flute melody that builds and leads into strings and vocals joining in. Once again the production and the sound of all the elements together is incredible. This one sounds truly epic and like it was worked on and revised for months and months on end. Sheer, pure dedication and love put into this, and I could feel and hear it. A truly special piece that truly does itself justice for being the title track. An awesome collection of hits and strings with an infectious melody that goes full force towards the end before suddenly stepping back into the peaceful flute again and one final drum hit to really add home the dramatic intention. The point in the trailer where you would get the release date up.

Track 9: Dare To Dream The most emotional and heartfelt piece so far, at least to my ears. It has a lovely melody that goes into quite a whimsical, charming sound. The rapid strings, piano arpeggio, and then into a seriously lovely sound. Honestly, I can't think of ways to describe something that sounds so light hearted and wonderful. A proper joyous, warm sounding piece of music that can not be properly explained. It must be felt and experienced. A collection of so many elements that just come together so well with the hard hitting drums, incredibly powerful horns, backing vocals from the choir to fill out the sound palette, and the rapid strings once again. So much incredibly beautiful things all colliding together.

Track 10: Aether

The last two pieces of this album might actually get the short end of the stick. This piece is beautiful on its own accord. An incredibly powerful and emotional track with some lovely moments, but after listening to so many similar things back to back to back, 9 tracks in a row...it just gets tiring. I love all of the music on this album, but it blends together. As sad as it is to say, but Aether is the most generic one of the entire album. It is bland and not very interesting in that it is repeated by everything that came before it. The massive drums and hits, the high strings stretched out, the hard hitting horns, and drop into a final assault of intensity and emotion. It just all becomes numb to you by the time you reach this point. If I had started with this, it might have been my favorite.

Track 11: Our Last Big Adventure

I am a massive fan of the strings in this one particularly, but much like the last piece it doesn't sound special enough. It tries to be new with a more classical approach to transitions and melodies and stuff, which it does incredibly well. Honestly, this is the one I would come back to the most. It has an incredible organization to it with some incredible melodies and percussion. An awesome sounding piece that...well it just feels tired out by this end. This could've been released on its own and be just as successful.

This entire album is complicated to me. It is chalk full of great music, but I don't think I could listen to it from beginning to end again. The 11 tracks only reach a total of about 33 minutes, and all the epic orchestral, "trailer music" as I call it is just something that is hard to listen to for so long. The music is clearly meant to have a visual element, and without it it sounds incomplete. It sounds unfinished. Like you need that final thing. But ever single piece here on its own or with a trailer would be incredible. I would come back to this a track at a time, perhaps mixed in with other classical music when I am writing or studying. It really is just a lot of repeated ideas and motifs throughout. I'm not knocking them for that since, well that is the style, but it just becomes a lot. If they had released every one of these tracks as singles spread across weeks or months, I think it would hit a lot better. It would be better to me to have one at a time and not a whole album of similar sounding music, no matter how good or great it is.

Overall Rating: 5/10