This is one of two albums that have sat in my review pile for some time due to the lack of anything to say about them. Now, reading the press release, I find most of it is about the record label Under The Influence and the events the label undertakes rather than about the band or record.
The album opens with a song called Encore that probably should have been the hidden track at the end. That said it's one of the strongest and least bland things on a very bland album. Well, having a fight as your relationship breaks down should sound angrier than this does, but then Atoms the second song has some decent guitars and not much else to keep me interested.
By the time I get to track three Then they Came For Us, I am fervently hoping they do, so The Reverse can leave me well alone and that's before the rest of the album descends into the sort of Blandness that makes James Blunt and Ed Sheeran look like radical avant garde rock acts. It's hard to be bothered by this music even when the lyrics cut through which they do manage to do at times.
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Then finally eleven tunes in just as I'm ready to frisbee the disc against a corrugated iron fence as I figure it's the best way to make this sound interesting on comes Dynamite & Gunpowder: the only track on the album you really might want to hear. In comparison to the rest of the album, it has some really angry sounding guitars that actually rock out before the blandness re-envelopes me on the album closer No More Encores to which the real plea is no more records by The Reverse.
I assume the influence this band is under is a party pack of Valium. I really wouldn't recommend this at all.
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