A Bit of Indifferene = 2/5
Bands who often want to seek instantaneous mainstream success will often turn to create a sound that everyone will love. 7 Day Weekend are a band who chose this option from their self-titled EP. But the same formula is stuck to and drags the state of the Warrington five piece into some shambles.
‘Hide’ opens the EP in a dramatic post-hardcore state with Calan Nickle’s likable vocals and a sound reminiscent of Young Guns and You Me at Six backing him up into what becomes what sounds like an anthem into a sluggish halt. The energy picks up with John Handy’s drumming providing the energy to Clayton Leah and Tom Hancox’s guitar playing in ‘Ghosts of Me’ whilst ‘Mistakes’ takes the conventional route of having a forced likeness around it, but regardless you can’t help but to enjoy it. ‘Kingdoms’ again takes another route that follows the progressive pop rock convention that is almost like a ballad before transforming into something tiresome in the verses whilst the chorus’ give a bit of a wake up call. When it all seems lost, ‘Seasons like These’ explodes out of nowhere – where the hell did this come from? The track is the thing that all tracks should have at least tried to be.
Yes, there’s plenty of energy from the five piece and certainly a lot of credit for trying to be something new, but the influences strongly show, and unfortunately so does the effect on the album of introducing some really slow songs that can reduce you to more tears than listening to an Adele album before incorporating two high quality ones in a strange track order.
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‘Hide’ opens the EP in a dramatic post-hardcore state with Calan Nickle’s likable vocals and a sound reminiscent of Young Guns and You Me at Six backing him up into what becomes what sounds like an anthem into a sluggish halt. The energy picks up with John Handy’s drumming providing the energy to Clayton Leah and Tom Hancox’s guitar playing in ‘Ghosts of Me’ whilst ‘Mistakes’ takes the conventional route of having a forced likeness around it, but regardless you can’t help but to enjoy it. ‘Kingdoms’ again takes another route that follows the progressive pop rock convention that is almost like a ballad before transforming into something tiresome in the verses whilst the chorus’ give a bit of a wake up call. When it all seems lost, ‘Seasons like These’ explodes out of nowhere – where the hell did this come from? The track is the thing that all tracks should have at least tried to be.
Yes, there’s plenty of energy from the five piece and certainly a lot of credit for trying to be something new, but the influences strongly show, and unfortunately so does the effect on the album of introducing some really slow songs that can reduce you to more tears than listening to an Adele album before incorporating two high quality ones in a strange track order.
http://www.facebook.com/7dayweekenduk