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The hottest boy band at the moment release their self titled debut album this month. So does it live up to the hype?
The album opens with debut single All Time Low followed by second single Heart Vacancy. Lose My Mind has a very King's Of Leon feel to it (in particular, Need Somebody). Replace Your Heart keeps the pace but has too much of a boyband feel to it (sounds like something Westlife would do).
Hi And Low drops the tempo again and feels a little out of place on the album as it's feels a little bare. Let's Get Ugly samples the well known theme to the Clint Eastwood film, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (originally composed by Ennio Morricone) an the chorus lyrics could be seen as some kind of homage to it (Cause they're so good/I'm so bad/So lets get ugly).
Say It On The Radio could be a Lady Gaga track in disguise (they'd just have to have a video to that standard). Golden requires a translator to understand what's being said for the majority of it. Weakness is an appropriate title for the next song. Like The Saturday's Missing You, this just doesn't seem to go anywhere when you expect it to.
A very cliché left, left right left right and typical military drumming opens Personal Soldier. Sadly doesn't kind live up to what you'd expect. Behind Bars is a rocking little that in the opening misleads the listener thinking it's going to be something soppy with the strings on their own.
The next track up is Made (recently made available on iTunes as their Single of The Week) and isn't a bad sounding number. Wonder why it's as far down the list though... The last track is A Good Day For Love To Die leaves you wondering where the rest of the album is
Overall, while there are some great little numbers on the album, it has a feeling that they are attempting to sound like everyone else already out there and not trying to stand out from the crowd. Sadly not something that was expected from the newest band on the music scene
Rating: 3/5
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