Album Review

Anthony Green - Young LegsAnthony Green – Young Legs

Anthony Green is the lead vocalist for the band Circa Survive who have been in the music industry for 10 years now and over that time have gone on to release 4 studio album’s and various different ep’s whilst also touring pretty much all across the world embarking on their own headline shows, support shows and festival shows, when Anthony Green is not busy with Circa Survive he is still busy in the musical industry working on his solo material and he has just released his third solo album ‘Young Legs’.

For ‘Young Legs’ Anthony Green teamed up with producer Will Yip who he has worked with before with Circa Survive yet over his time Will Yip has worked with a diverse range of artists from Lauryn hill to the Arctic Monkeys so the duo headed down to Studio 4 Recordings in Pennsylvania where they worked on the album solidly going out to create the most dreamy and atmospheric album of his career and it is safe to say they have managed exactly what they stepped out to achieve.

‘Young Legs’ features 11 tracks and runs for just over 40 minutes and the album opens with ‘Breaker’ a song which happens to be the first single release from the album and is a dreamy sounding piano driven number where Anthony Green really shines with his stand out vocals which are seriously unlike any other vocalist I have ever heard.

The album title track ‘Young Legs’ is depressingly beautiful, the song really does flow in such a sad way but at the same time the beautiful piano sounds and Anthony Green’s powerful vocals really are a strong mix and really helps make the song an extremely listenable number which is full of emotion.

‘Too Little Too Late’ is a right dreamy little number where Anthony Green strums his acoustic guitar and slowly sings throughout. ‘When You sang To Me’ is easily one of the strongest tracks on the album and is also the most experimental as various different soundscapes grace the airwaves as Anthony Green sings in such a beautiful way making way for the most accessible moment of the album. ‘Anytime’ is also very beautiful sounding and full of random soundscapes whilst vocally things come across very poppy as Anthony Green gives out his best vocal performance of the album.

Lyrically things are quite personal and close to the heart but are more about what is going on in the world today with many songs written about what Anthony Green’s friends and family have been going through as he sings about his friend going through a divorce, missing people who have departed the world far too soon, as well as even having songs about his young son.

When I first put on ‘Young Legs’ I didn’t think I would be walking away that impressed but the album has truly surprised me and happens to be one of the most emotional sounding albums I have heard in a long time, it is the kind of album you put on if you want to chill out or what a bit of background music as it is the kind of album you can get into even if you start listening to it half way through or towards the end of a track as Anthony Green’s voice is so powerful and works wonders at grabbing the listeners attention.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Anthony Green
 Track Listing

1. Breaker
2. Young Legs
3. 100 Steps
4. Too Little, Too Late
5. When You Sang To Me
6. Anytime
7. I’ll Miss You
8. Stolen
9. Conversation Piece
10. Shine
11. You Have To Believe It Will Happen

 Band Related Links
Anthony Green Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?