Review:
'Hosts, The'
'Softly, Softly'
- Album: 'Softly, Softly'
- Label: 'Fierce Panda'
- Genre: 'Pop'
- Release Date: '10th February 2014'
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Our Rating:
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Pitched a containing nine ‘slabs of melody-powered melancholy’, The Hosts, who hail from Sheffield (and, spawned fro the ashes of Hoggboy, scored local hero Richard Hawley to produce a couple of the tracks) offer up a debut album that’s clearly not short on confidence, at least in terms of their songwriting and musical prowess. Lyrically, they’re all about the love and loss, heartache and heartbreak.
There’s a smoochy 50s vibe to much of the music, and if ‘Blue Velvet’ hadn’t already been written, they’d have probably come up with it. The production is big. These guys clearly have a lot of heart and a keen sense of glorious nostalgia. ‘The One’ does sound agonisingly similar to Rene and Renata’s slushy 80s smash ‘Save Your Love’ which is a bit of a spoiler, but for many listeners they’ll encapsulate the sound of the classic tear-jerker. For those who love their bittersweet sentimentality flavoured with strong hints of the band’s preferred reference points, which include Buddy Holly, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys and Jonathan Fire*Eater, then ‘Softly, Softly’ will do the job.
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author: Christopher Nosnibor
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