 
Three years ago Letlive released their breakthrough
album ‘Fake History’ and since then
the band have become a massive talking point with
alternative music fans across the country, back
in February 2012 Letlive embarked on the Kerrang
tour and every single night they put 100% percent
into their performance with Jason Aalon Butler
spending the majority of the shows running down
the pit between the stage and the crowd and also
diving into the crowd pleasing the crowd and also
keeping the security on their feet for the best
part of 30minutes.
Now Letlive are gearing up for the release of
their forth studio album ‘The Blackest Beautiful’
and this time around they have decided to put
the album up in its entirety for everyone to stream
a month in advance with the album actually being
released on the 8th July in the UK and Europe
and the 9th July in America.
The album kicks off with ‘Banshee (Ghost
Fame)’ which also happens to be the band’s
latest single and the song comes at you like a
100mile per hour whirlwind with Jason Aalon Butler’s
distinctive punchy vocals really taking centre
stage as one minute he shouting his way through
the track and the next laying down more melodic
sounding vocals, whilst the rest of the band come
in at key moments for gang shouts and screams,
instrumentally things are hard hitting with chugging
guitar riffs and solid drum beats which help round
off the overall hectic sound which is going to
see this song grow into a mosh pit anthem over
the weeks following on from this release.
‘Empty Elvis’ follows on from the
opening track perfectly with its big distorted
screamo vocals which soon morph into really fast
flowing beautiful singing, whilst instrumentally
once again Ryan Johnson, Jean Nascimento and Jeff
Sahyoun lay down some solid riffs and beats like
they just opened a can of whoop ass and wanted
to help create a mosh pit anthem where people
go psycho blasting out their finest windmill actions.
Compared to the open tracks ‘White America’s
Beautiful Black Market’ sounds a bit toned
down but it still stays true to what Letlive are
all about as Jason Aalon Butler still let’s
trip with his distinctive vocals yet this time
around the anger is left until the final moments
of the track.
‘Dreamers Disease’ is a good listen
because of its punchy nature, ‘That Fear
Fever’ is a fast flowing action pack track
from start to finish whilst the laid back ‘Virgin
Dirt’ has the potential to be a future single
just for the fact it is different from anything
Letlive have done before and would be a good chance
to show off a different side from the normally
in your fact hectic band.
I feel that the strongest sounding tracks on the
album are ‘Younger’ and ‘The
Priest And Used Cars’, with ‘Younger’
being a song which has the most potential to find
commercial success as it is extremely catchy and
have radio play written all over it, whilst ‘The
Priest And Used Cars’ is the total opposite
as Letlive unleash this fast fist pumping number
which is dominated with big gang vocals.
The album finishes with ’27 Club’
a song which is quickly going to become a live
favourite due to the fact that Letlive have put
everything into this song to make it a big catchy
scream-a-long number filled with massive riffs
and general excellence.
‘The Blackest Beautiful’ is one of
those albums which has been written to be played
live as whilst listening to the album you can
imagine how each and every track would go down
on the live circuit, and the wait to experience
some of the album on the live circuit is not long
as Letlive are back in the UK for a run of headline
shows in October.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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