This four-piece are described as being from "Birmingham's backstreets" as if to suggest that they've struggled to overcome an impoverished background. I personally don't buy it.
The PR team further boast of the "six beefy cuts" and "burly riffage" but, in truth, there's a lack of the kind of cut and thrust needed to raise this above the level of workmanlike melodic metal.
It lies in a limbo land between hard rock and soft pop in which the half-hearted screamo vocals never sound as angry or tortured as they ought to.
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Perhaps we should admire the lovesick anti-macho sentiments of All About You ("I'm just too afraid, I've begun to doubt") but the effect is spoilt somewhat with the postscript: "I'm living my life - LIIIIIIIIIFE!!!".
Any edginess about the band is dispelled with a bonus track cover of Adele's Set Fire To Rain which is about as far from radical as you can get.
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