 
Depth are a 4 piece band from Norwich and I’ll
be honest with you this isn’t going to be
the best of reviews for the lads. They are too
like funeral for a friend, almost an exact copy
if I’m being totally honest; throw on “Casually
Dressed & Deep in Conversation” then
this album “Situations fulfilled and there
are so many similarities it’s not even subtle.
The song “The Story So Far” starts
in a very similar way to “Bend Your Arms
to Look like Wings” the way it has a little
clean riff and then the vocals flow into the song
and the riff and breakdown later on in the songs
has FFAF written all over it as that too is extremely
similar to the same song.
It really wouldn’t be so bad if FFAF hadn’t
just released a cracking album in the same vain
as their earlier stuff because then it would be
Depth picking up on a sound that was lost once
upon a time but however that Cinderella claim
to fame isn’t going to happen because as
I say, it’s just too similar.
The vocals are not exact but similar styles as
well the music is extremely similar. It’s
not like nobody knows who FFAF is they are a massive
alternative rock band and have had a successful
career. It’s not like I’m saying the
band is bad because that’s like saying that
FFAF aren’t good and I’m a massive
fan but for an upcoming band to have no originality
and be this similar to another band it’s
going to annoy a lot of people; each time I listen
to the album I get really agitated because of
the similarities.
On some songs they show slight signs of original
ideas like some decent riffs or breakdowns like
in songs such as “Words Written” with
use of some double bass and tremolo picking and
the intro to “Hero With a Half Life”
has a very dirty rock intro with use of a wah
pedal. They need to focus on things the pull them
away from being “the band that sounds like
FFAF” and put as much of it into their next
release as possible. All this album proves is
that they can write and are talented musicians,
now they’ve got to find an original style
and try and put this behind them; I can’t
see that happening I think they’ll continue
to put out material like this and get ripped apart
which is a shame really.
2/5
Review by James Webb
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