 
A good 18 months ago Frank Carter announced his
departure from the Gallows to focus on his new
band Pure Love which he formed with ex Hope Conspiracy
guitarist Jim Carroll, Frank went on to play a
final tour with the Gallows which included an
appearance at Sonisphere festival and also a couple
of low key shows at the toilet sized venues around
the country and at each and every one of these
shows he wore a Pure Love t-shirt to help promote
his new project and also prove to the world that
his focus and love is now on Pure Love.
Pure Love played their first ever live show on
Valentine’s Day back in 2012 and ever since
then they have been steadily touring across the
UK on their own headline tour, supporting high
profile bands like the Lostprophets and along
the way they have also managed to release four
outstanding singles with many people comparing
them to the Darkness with the release of their
debut single ‘Bury My Bones’ but as
soon as single number two ‘Handsome Devils
Club’ was unleashed those comparisons were
instantly dropped.
The wait for debut Pure Love album ‘Anthems’
feels like forever as the album has been met with
many delays, it was originally down to be released
back in October but was soon pushed back to early
2013 and now February has hit us Pure Love are
ready to unleash the album and the timing makes
sense in a way as it is pretty much a year on
since their first ever live show at Bush Hall
in London.
‘Anthems’ is exactly what the name
suggests an album crammed with 11 solid sounding
rock anthems, it is the kind of album that you
could put on repeat and listen to time and time
again without getting bored , there are no screamo
moments in sight and instead Frank finally gets
to proves to the world that he can really sing.
The album opens with ‘She (Makes The Devil
Run Through Me)’ which is a big sounding
guitar driven song where Frank sings his little
heart out in such a passionate way, lead single
‘Bury My Bones’ follows up the opening
song and opens with the lyrics of “I’m
so sick of singing about hate, It’s never
going to make a change, it breaks me down bit
by bit”, which is Frank clearly voicing
his opinion on his past with the Gallows and how
he never wants to go back to being negative and
in such an angry band, musically the song is massive
huge riffs running throughout.
Listening to ‘The Hits’ you would
be forgiven for thinking that Frank Carter was
not on vocals as it is so hard to believe that
he has gone from screaming his bollocks off in
the Gallows to singing in such a melodic way.
The album title track ‘Anthem’ see’s
Pure Love take a dark and twisted turn with a
really thought out soulful number that has a various
different twists and turns to keep you wondering
what is going to happen next.
The later part of the album features the hit singles
‘Beach Of Diamonds’, ‘Handsome
Devils Club’ and ‘Riot Song’
and each and every single one of these songs are
different each other yet they all ooze in greatness
in their own little way, take ‘Beach Of
Diamonds’ for example the song is very stripped
back yet Frank Carter proper nails it during the
chorus, ‘Handsome Devils Club’ is
a pure sing-a-long rock n roll song which easily
let’s off the most energy throughout the
album and ‘Riot Song’ is so far from
being a riot yet features one of the best choruses
the album has to offer.
Each and every song on the album has something
different to offer the album really is that diverse
sounding and that is what makes Pure Love the
kind of band that appeals to a wide range of people,
it is safe to say that Pure Love are destined
for big things, ‘Anthems’ has been
a long time coming and it has easily been worth
the wait, when the 2013 comes to an end you can
expect to see ‘Anthems’ in many people’s
top albums of the year list.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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