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I have been a steady fan of the Lostprophets since
they released their debut album ‘thefakesoundofprogress’
back in 2000, I still remember walking into HMV
and paying the steep price of £13.99 for the
album and getting excited because the casing for
the album had a slight blue tint making it look
that much nicer than any other CD case in my collection,
yeah it didn’t take too much to excite me
back in those days.
Since buying ‘thefakesoundofprogress’
I have gone on to buy every Lostprophets album
release with their second album ‘Start something’
rating highly with myself and their third album
‘Liberation Transmission’ not rating
so highly, in fact I wouldn’t be able to
name you many song’s off the album at all
due to the fact that I haven’t heard it
that much.
Well Lostprophets have been working on the follow
up to ‘Liberation Transmission’ since
early 2007 and during some time out from the writing
and recording process they headlined the Download
Festival at Donington Park during the summer of
2008, the headline slot by Lostprophets had a
massive mixed reaction with the Download crowd
with many people claiming their weren’t
big enough to headline the festival and others
claiming they were the wrong type of band to play
high up at such an heavy rock festival, either
way Lostprophets came and played and they were
totally the best headline band of the weekend
with a much more heavy and energetic set than
both Kiss and The Offspring who were the festivals
other headliners. After Download festival Lostprophets
scrapped all work on their fourth album even though
it was pretty much complete.
A year and a half later the fourth Lostprophets
album is complete, named ‘The Betrayed’
and currently on its way to the top half of the
album chart after being released for a couple
of days, so you will be asking yourself is ‘The
Betrayed’ been worth the wait and how does
it follow up from ‘Liberation Transmission’?
In my opinion ‘The Betrayed’ has
been well worth the wait and is defiantly the
best album they have created since ‘thefakesoundofprogress’,
they haven’t gone back to their routes with
the album or anything but ‘The Betrayed’
is a big diverse mix of songs with features some
proper brutal moments, extremely poppy moments,
and enough electronic beats to keep all you electronic
and nu-rave geeks pleased.
‘If It Wasn’t For Hate, We’d
Be Dead By Now’ opens the album with some
big drum beats, before Ian Watkins vocals come
in, in a softly spoken way before become more
loud and aggressive for the chorus, the song has
a bit of an Audioslave stadium rock feel about
it and is the first bit of proof that ‘The
Betrayed’ has been worth the wait.
The song everyone is talking about at the moment
is ‘Dstryr/Dstryr’, because it features
Lostprophets going back to their heavy roots,
the song is big and brutal sounding like the song
title suggests, the lyrics to the song feature
Ian Watkins screaming “Turn around motherfucker,
cause we ain’t done’ in an aggressive
way, but whilst the song is aggressive it is also
vocally melodic in places and features big bouncy
basslines playing alongside chunky guitar riffs.
‘It’s Not The End Of The World, But
I Can See It From Here’ is the first single
to be taken from the album and the song is well
put together and overall fantastic, defiantly
the best single the Lostprophets have released
in some time, the song has big instrumental work
which gives off the sound of a big block buster
movie whilst the vocals are melodic yet pack a
big punch at the same time.
The next song on the album is ‘Where We
Belong’ the song also happens to be the
bands next single, it sounds very much like it
has been cut from the Funeral For A Friend ‘Tales
Don’t Tell Themselves’ era and happens
to be the poppiest single that the Lostprophets
have ever released.
‘Next Stop, Atro City’ is one of
my favourite song’s on the album; it is
just a furious fast paced song which features
everything from catchy hooks to aggressive screams.
‘For He’s A Jolly Good Felon’
is the kind of song that you would expect to see
on a Fall Out Boy album, it is extremely poppy
and will have you singing along in seconds.
The album closes with ‘The Light That Shines
Twice As Bright’ the song features a lot
of computer trickery and electronic work , it’s
rough and fun sounding and will instantly remind
of the Lostprophets from back in the year 2000.
Overall ‘The Betrayed’ features 11
new Lostprophets song’s all of a high quality
nature, which feature a mixture of big riffs,
bouncy basslines, melodic choruses and big aggressive
screams everywhere, Lostprophets have done well
and their fans will be extremely happy and so
will the band be themselves once the first week
album sales are in.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Ian Watkins
Lee Gaze
Mike Lewis
Stuart Richardson
Jamie Oliver
Luke Johnson |
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1. If It Wasn't For Hate We'd Be Dead By Now
2. Dstryr/ Dstryr
3. It's Not The End Of The World But I Can See It
From Here
4. Where We Belong
5. Next Stop Atro City
6. For He's A Jolly Good Felon
7. A Better Nothing
8. Streets Of Nowhere
9. Dirty Little Heart
10. Darkest Blue
11. The Light That Burns Twice As Bright.. |
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Score Code |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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