Artist: This City
Title: We Were Like Sharks
Label: Epitaph
Genre: Rock
Bitrate: 225kbit av.
Time: 00:34:26
Size: 58.31 mb
Rip Date: 2009-10-01
Str Date: 2009-10-19
01. We Move 3:13
02. Black And Blue 3:52
03. With Loaded Guns 2:35
04. Romantic 3:28
05. Picture This 3:44
06. No Hero 3:07
07. Moving Parts 3:18
08. Colours 3:52
09. Kids With Fireworks 3:52
10. Middle Ground 3:25
Release Notes:
I've been waiting for the album for a long time, and it has totally
been worth the wait. Brilliant, check it out!
This City are a band with a very distinguishable sound. Appealing to
fans of indie, punk, post-hardcore and good old rock, the band seem to
somehow incorporate a bit of all of this into one record quite
comfortably in debut full-length We Were Like Sharks.
Opener We Move boasts such a quirky and catchy chorus, it sticks in
your head almost instantly, despite those who might find frontman
ChrisÆs very accent-orientated vocal talents grinding on them ever so
slightly after just a verse or two. For those who can get over it, or
enjoy it full on, theyÆll find a collection of absolute gems buried in
amongst this debut record.
Each track is packed with such energy, and itÆs quite an easy mistake
to make to assume the quintet have been there and done it on many a
record before, but itÆs the youthful charm of the album that makes it
sound as good as it does. The spoken-sung hybrid captured on tracks
like Black and Blue and the instantly catchy Romantic scream radio
play, while giving it something different, away from the norm. Away on
the other side of the spectrum, even the slower, more melodic songs
like the sunny day-esque Colour still boasts a massive chorus and a
jumpy rhythm, and takes the listener by the ears to tell them if
theyÆre to sit down and relax, itÆs not an option.
ItÆs got turbluence, and itÆs only a pity when you realise after ten
short songs and little over thirty minutes, itÆs over; no song braving
to pass the four-minute mark. On the plus side, this will defnitely
leave the bandÆs listeners craving for an extra nugget of brilliant
tunes; these tracks have the power to hook a shark with a fishing rod,
and they could soon become your new favourite band to hum along to.
Like the likes of Biffy Clyro before them, This City are a band with a
very different sound, thatÆs yet so close. Be warned, this is an
absolute gem of an album, and a cracking debut.
sire@hush.ai