A Modern Question - Fortune Drive Album Review
Fortune Drive
Album Review
Fortune Drive are purists at heart when it comes to ploughing their craft.
'A Modern Question' is a finely tuned forty three minute masterpiece of sordid pleasure for the Bristol based quintet. A group of friends drawn together through the bands vertically challenged lead guitarist and vocalist Bobby Anderson united in the premise that their sole aim was to produce pure, unadulterated rock music. Having grown up in a leafy, musically stark, industrialised south west, in the remnants of a Massive Attack/ Portishead hangover the band looked towards their musical rock'n'roll influences for inspiration. Having grown up listening religiously to the classic sounds of god like acts The Doors, The Who and Oasis, Anderson aimed to take key elements of their musical influences forward thinking and repackage them in his own diminutive way. From the outset Fortune Drive have been gunning for a modern day rock'n'roll revival insisting that they're style of music is not to be classed hap hazardly in any of the numerous sub-genres littering the modern day music scene, its just simple good old rock'n'roll and nothing else. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
Opener 'Said It All' puts the foot on the gas from the very beginning, letting up only towards the very end of the track to draw breath and regroup. In all honesty the opening tracks including 'From Start to Finish'
and 'My Girlfriend's An Arsonist' are passable highly charged, crisp, melodic and highly animated numbers making the bands inclusion on tours with Juliette and The Licks, Idlewild and The Young Knives understandable. Whilst there are elements of the old classics that influenced the bands impressionable state from time to time the mind wanders to the sounds of the Klaxons and The Smiths. The band's aim to stay true to the rock'n'roll cause is honourable but with the line between rock and punk being a thin one, the bands sound sits precariously on a tight rope swaying from side to side straying at times.
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