This is a very similar pattern on this record. It's short and sweet, but there's a lot of melody and rock elements in the 11 songs. However, if you are looking for the solo side of music, I'd stay clear of this album. There are some shorter solos and licks, but in general, Hundred Reasons aren't that kind of band. But they don't need solos when the music is this good. That's not to say there's no variety though.
I'd say that's a huge mistake when describing this, as Hundred Reasons have managed to make each song sound different from the last, without straying too far outside their boundries for music. It takes turns in songs like "The Chance", which has an Incubus feeling with slower guitar riffs and calm drums, to "Live Fast, Die Ugly", a 2-and-a-half minute complete hardcore marathon with devilish screams and dark riffs, to "This Mess", the slowest song on the album and an electric ballad with gritty sound and great lyrics.
The band have certainly gone for a broader route than Shatterproof , and I think it's helped them. The production of the album only adds to the way it sounds, and it brings out the best in the instruments. The lead guitar sounds like complete crap at sometimes, but put against the rhythm and the other instruments, it gives it that roughness that made their debut so likeable. I suppose it's a sweet charm that their second album desperately needed. Kill Your Own is the band's sophomore album that never was.
It's fresh and new, while staying familiar to the fans. I admit that only having 11 songs is a little disappointing, but I'd rather this than 14 boring songs sounding the same. You can tell that in the 4 years between this and when they were signed, they have learnt a few tricks and used them to perfection on this album. Colin's time spent with hardcore side-project The Lucky Nine is clearly evident on some of the harder songs on this album, with his vocals progressing and ranging so widely on here.
I'd say this is the rebirth of Hundred Reasons, but that seems like sort of a stigma. What I will say is that they have created one hell of a rock record, ringing with bass and melody that will stick with fans of the band for a while. With the coverage this band haven't gotten on TV lately, I'd say this is a triumphant return to the rock scene of Britain.
This album doesn't disappoint, proving they are gainging more experience on the rhythm side of music. Rank: 51 for Forgive Durden Wonderland.
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We do not accept requests. By Lass No comments. Label Number: VVR Both are similarly emotive in their rocking, although to call either an emo record would be inaccurate. DiS, never ones to miss a trick, here pitches one against the other in an attempt to squeeze a feature from a pair of pure reviews.
A simple, distorted opening riff is demolished by front man Colin Doran in a truly attention-shredding manner: his opening line is absolutely indiscernible, such is the absolute anger that bleeds torrentially from every syllable screamed from beneath his still-significantly-bouncy barnet. The albums vary greatly in terms of their openings, too: Kill Your Own rumbles into life with a fuzzy wave of disorientating white noise, droning its way from speakers unprepared for such a curtain-raising first scene.
Range is no problem for Doran: aficionados will already know that he can half-carry a note decently enough, but on Kill Your Own he concentrates on his strengths, i.
At their most accessible on Kill Your Own , it seems incredible that Columbia let Hundred Reasons slip from their grasp, willingly. Again, exact words are buried under an avalanche of amplified aggression.
In terms of stylistic departures from the expected, Kill Your Own provides few. Fightstar, keen as they are to appeal to a broad spectrum of rock fans and thus gain that still-elusive credibility from such fraternities, do try their hand at a song not entirely in keeping with their regular output, i.
US-influenced emo-rock regurgitated with Suffolk accents. That, or he should consider some vocal coaching. So, how do the two records fare, in out-of-ten terms? There are suggestions of talent beyond the all-been-done-before core of Grand Unification , and if these traces of intelligence above the base level required to play music like this are developed, Fightstar could yet convert even their most hard-line doubters.
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