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Gravity is the brand new studio album from Irish boy band Westlife. The title is taken from a song on the album, apparently chosen by a fan on Twitter. This album is also a first with the boys having much more input into the songwriting side of things plus in the way that the songs were recorded. So what's on it?
The opening track, Beautiful Tonight is a bright upbeat song, not too unsimiliar to the Bruno Mars' track Just The Way You Are. Next it's the first single to be taken from the album and where the name of the album comes from. Safe is just about right for this; it's yet another cover. Chances is a slow ballad, can't say much else about it. It doesn't go anywhere, just seems to droll.
I Will Reach You and The Reason is a bit more of the Westlife standard. An upbeat ballad is more along what you might expect from the boys. Inbetween these is Closer, another slow ballad. Tell Me It's Love could be titled My Love Part II as it's very similar in melody to that.
I Get Weak and Before It's Too Late are another two ballads, the latter picking up in power midway. Finally, we come to another upbeat song, this time in the form of No One's Gonna Sleep Tonight. You could almost imagine a dance remix of this. Difference In Me is a lovely little number, decent little pop ballad. The album is brought to a close by a heart felt song called Too Hard To Say Goodbye, which as you can guess, is a ballad.
This is the first album that the boys have had as much input into the album so maybe it's unfair to judge it against what has come before. However, the way the songs are on the album, their attempt to disregard their image of 'ballad stool singers' fails miserably. There's not enough upbeat material here for them to get rid of that image. It mainly feels miserable with a minor injection of excitement which fades as quickly as it was given. If it was a school report it would read must try harder!
Rating:2/5
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