No, no, no, no. Everything about this is just awful. Drawing on a diverse range of influences – they list Blink 182 and Jessie J amongst them – Actions! sound like a local band desperate to impress, with their application of mainstream chart production values (courtesy of John Mitchell, who’s worked with The Blackout, Architects, Enter Shakiri and Lower than Atlantis with similarly nasty results).
Emily Cracknell’s sleek, overproduced vocals sit way up to the fore against a polished but altogether bland and similarly overproduced guitar backing. The lyrics are utter drivel, too, the line ‘my heart’s suffocating... you’re tearing me apart’ being pretty much representative. It’s as painful to listen to as the experience she’s describing, the only difference being that hearing this isn’t biologically impossible – which is a pity.
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