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When you find an album called Wildblood, in a ye
olde slightly gothic font – you expect something
at least vaguely metallic. But no, this certainly
isn't metal. It's alternative rock – fairly
thinly textured but still quite nice. “Right
On Time” is a very down tempo song with the
guitars and bass rhythmically bustling about one
another, beneath a gentle vocal which really completes
the album. It really is perfectly suited to the
music beneath it – clean (in both the inoffensive
and clarity senses) softly ozzing over the verses
and occasionally fluttering up into a falcetto moan.
Almost like a subdued A Silent Film – but
not as mind-blowing. “Boxing Underwater”
is a strong track, led by a echoed... actually I
don't know what sound that is. My criticism of other
records has been that they're boring – and
although this release from The October Game doesn't
have much going on at once, the music progresses,
and is written, in a significantly more mature way
than a lot of average nonsense coming out of late.
I'm not a massive fan of seven or eight minute long
songs on such albums, but aside from that Wildblood
is a fairly successful album. It's easy to listen
to, and maintins a melody throughout – hooray!
4/5
Review by Thom |
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1. Wildblood
2. Greenbacks
3. Right On Time
4. Concrete (When We Were Invincible)
5. Boxing Underwater
6. Something Wrong
7. Biplanes At 2am
8. Where The Devil Loses Out
9. Cast These Waves
10. These Words Of Mine
11. Night Vessels |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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