One Day Son This Will All Be Yours - Fightstar Album Review

One Day Son This Will All Be Yours - Fightstar Album Review

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Album Review

The British rockers second album is their finest yet. After ditching the memories and image of Busted in the first album, the band are a lot more comfortable with this c.d, with tracks being less ear damaging and not drowned out by lead singer Charlie Simpson’s Guitar. The album includes the piano led ‘Floods’ which features soft drums and vocals in the verse whilst still including the metal based chorus with powerful drums and distorted guitar.

Fightstar create a unique blend of using hard instrumentals without overpowering the melodic nature of Simpson’s vocals. ‘Deathcar’ combines the two together well. Despite the brain damaging attempts at adding screamo styled singing to the song, the song is a good addition to their back catalogue; drummer Omar Abidi’s work sounds at its best with his fast-tempo’d drum rolling driving the song.

Despite the singles all being great sounding, that’s about it. Fightstar’s album is based all around the singles and the rest appear album fillers with no real drive in the songs. ‘I Am the Message’ sounds borderline indie/pop with its simplistic lyrics and basic structure. ‘You and I’ sounds like Radiohead gone horribly wrong.

The singles ‘99’ and ‘We Apologise for Nothing’ atone for the poorer tracks on the album. ‘99’ sounds like the bands previous biggest hit ‘Palahniuk's Laughter’, being laced in heavy riffs and louder singing from Charlie Simpson. ‘We Apologise For Nothing’ is a typical rock song, providing nothing particularly special bar being one of the quieter and slower tracks on the c.d. It’s unsurprising it was chosen as a single because the song does stick in your head like chewing gum on a carpet.

Fighstar’s c.d is a decent album and one that shows the potential the band has to offer. Tracks like ‘Floods’ and ‘We Apologise for Nothing’ become instantly addictive, whilst ‘Deathcar’ and ‘99’ will suit their metal based fans. The band doesn’t offer enough variety or creativity when it comes to other tracks on the album, seemingly putting all their efforts into four or five tracks and rushing the rest. If you download the singles you’ll become attached to the band and hopefully banish any thoughts that Busted were better.

Tom Crowther

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