Maccabees are back, it seems like a game right now for British artists to make a great debut album then follow it up with the screaming love child of everything you love about music as a second album.. Jack Penate, Calvin Harris, JamieT to name a few..
The Maccabees don't disappoint unless your looking for the cute poppy love songs they created on there first album, instead they sound more relaxed and mature in both the song writing and also in the sound, sounding like a band that have been around for years and completly comfortable... As if just doing it for fun...
The album has enough bridges to make an acrophobe pee him self... And the build ups are phenominally good that you'll probably forget to breath... The sound of the record as a whole from the outside sounds like an early Smiths and depeche mode peice, but as you listen to it and hear the effort made its sound changes into a more deep velvet or dare I say Dylan masterpeice..
Will it becomes classic? Will the band make a future off this record? I don't know, all I know is this is probably the best record I've heard this year and that's a pretty big statment to make considering the new U2 and Killers albums
What Rox: Kiss and Resolve
What Sux: The albums too short
Outcome: 8/10
***UPDATE***
This album was released at the beginning of this week, and even although i remember how great a record it is and how much i loved listening too it... until a point where it reached 300 plays on my iPhone and i had to un-sync it because i got to stage where i was re-citing the album i my sleep...
No disrespect to the album however, its very cleverly written...
I have a problem though and its not directly linked with the band i feel the decision to to re-release the album came from a record Exec looking for a little January bonus.. and what?
for 4 poor songs...
And a re-review
Outcome: 5/10
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