If you're in the mood for something experimental, delicate, refined and with plenty of frills, you miiight want to steer clear of this album as you scan your collection. If on the other hand you've got an excess of energy; a desire to jump and pogo and scream like a child-actor on Nickelodeon then put this on.
Standout track is definately Keeping It Close with a truly infectious riff intro, but the band went with Light It Up for the first single, presumably due to the steady eighth-note drumbeats under a chant-along chorus.
The band haven't made this album difficult for themselves, or broken away from the style of the first album. If you didn't like 2008's Box of Secrets, then there is precious little to convert you to BRS on their sophomore record. If you did, this is a gentle step forward that promises an exciting career from Laura-Mary Carter (guitars, vocals) and Steven Ansell (drums, vocals).
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Thursday, 4 March 2010
Thursday, 10 September 2009
The Resistance; My First Listen
Uprising kicks the album off with a jumping sing-along of a tune, and that infamous wondering Doctor Who melody. I for one can't wait to hear/see/jump-to it live.
I love floor toms. For this reason - not only this reason, but mainly - I love Resistance. Very danceable.
Undisclosed Desires is Depeche Mode. It's gorgeous but, like a lot of Muse's work, not actually ground-breaking. Let me elaborate: the stuff they do is often new and unusual in the context of their back catalogue, but is a pastiche of existing work. The thing that makes them good is not so much originality as flexibility; their ability to take all of what's gone before and filter it through their own particular lens.
United States of Eurasia makes it impossible to deny that I'm a fan of my generation's Queen-equivalent. My favourite parts of the song are the fast eigth-note piano bits in the verse, and the Lawrence of Arabia bits; the Queen stuff I could've done without.
AHHH one of the melodies in Guiding Light is reminiscent of Glasvegas. YUK. But apart from that it's shaping up to be stadium epic in the same vein as Invincible. Wow this track is... loud? I like the plodding bass beat.
Now I'm hearing Nickelback. Which is downright madness. Unnatural Selection is rifftacular as promised. Ooh and more of those "hey"s on the backbeat, I'm always a fan of that. Slow bit: take the distortion out! Just the vox, drums, bass combo would be ample. Now we're into a nice guitar section though, that's cool. That track developed in much the same way as those Origin of Symmetry 6-7 minute beasts. Top notch.
After that MK Ultra is sounding a little average, but I think it's more the classic hard-act-to-follow problem than anything amiss with MK Ultra. Good breakdown after the first chorus. BIG outro riff.
Hello Maroon 5, how are you? And now we're at a carnival. Jazz Club... Or something? I Belong To You. You see now I'm just impatient to hear the symphony. Something funky going on with the bass. Bonjour!
Symphonic Monster. They love their arpeggios, and my word, more musicians need to do projects like this. Seriously, if you're in an orchestra, get an electric guitarist involved (and vice-versa).
I love floor toms. For this reason - not only this reason, but mainly - I love Resistance. Very danceable.
Undisclosed Desires is Depeche Mode. It's gorgeous but, like a lot of Muse's work, not actually ground-breaking. Let me elaborate: the stuff they do is often new and unusual in the context of their back catalogue, but is a pastiche of existing work. The thing that makes them good is not so much originality as flexibility; their ability to take all of what's gone before and filter it through their own particular lens.
United States of Eurasia makes it impossible to deny that I'm a fan of my generation's Queen-equivalent. My favourite parts of the song are the fast eigth-note piano bits in the verse, and the Lawrence of Arabia bits; the Queen stuff I could've done without.
AHHH one of the melodies in Guiding Light is reminiscent of Glasvegas. YUK. But apart from that it's shaping up to be stadium epic in the same vein as Invincible. Wow this track is... loud? I like the plodding bass beat.
Now I'm hearing Nickelback. Which is downright madness. Unnatural Selection is rifftacular as promised. Ooh and more of those "hey"s on the backbeat, I'm always a fan of that. Slow bit: take the distortion out! Just the vox, drums, bass combo would be ample. Now we're into a nice guitar section though, that's cool. That track developed in much the same way as those Origin of Symmetry 6-7 minute beasts. Top notch.
After that MK Ultra is sounding a little average, but I think it's more the classic hard-act-to-follow problem than anything amiss with MK Ultra. Good breakdown after the first chorus. BIG outro riff.
Hello Maroon 5, how are you? And now we're at a carnival. Jazz Club... Or something? I Belong To You. You see now I'm just impatient to hear the symphony. Something funky going on with the bass. Bonjour!
Symphonic Monster. They love their arpeggios, and my word, more musicians need to do projects like this. Seriously, if you're in an orchestra, get an electric guitarist involved (and vice-versa).
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