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In the current music scene, a band has to do something
different, really stand out from all the other heartbroken
musicians out there using their pain to channel
their music. They need to have something extra,
that panache, that sound, to define them from all
the other mediocre generic bands out there. Unfortunately
for them, I don’t think Johnny Panic has that.
That said, ‘The Good Fight’ has its
plus points with some good vocal harmonies and
some decent guitar riffs. One such punchy, attention
grabbing riff is the intro to track 12, ‘Dislocation’,
which is for me personally the best track on the
album. It should also undoubtedly been at the
front end of it, possibly the album opener. Unfortunately
the intro track, ‘Heroes of Villains’
sets the tone for the whole album; poppy, cringingly
catchy, repetitive, and not really anything special.
To be honest the whole album is a bit plain and
boring. There’s nothing that grabs you by
the balls and makes you want to stick the CD on
repeat. Potentially it might be a ‘grower’
album that relies on you listening to it a few
times, problem with that being after 1 listen,
you probably won’t want to listen to it
again.
As expected the pace of the CD gets slowed up
at track 3 with a softer song, trying to show
they have a different side to them, it kind of
works, but again is just a mediocre track from
an average album. The sound of Johnny Panic on
this album is what I would call a softer Senses
Fail or Billy Talent, both bands I really like
so I’m not going to hate this album completely.
Track 8, ‘Stay’, did intrigue me
at first because it starts like some kind of Clint
Eastwood western. Think Green Day’s ‘Espionage’
but better. It has that kind of ‘comedy
film soundtrack’ feel to it. The 9 minute
marathon of a song that is track 11, ‘Never
Me (Old Friends, New Enemies)’, is just
too long, and too disjointed. It feels like the
band have come up with certain genre sounding
pieces of music and wanted to create some sort
of ‘overall masterpiece’ and it just
doesn’t work. The parts just jump in mish-mash
and there’s no proverbial glue that holds
the song together. You’ll get 5 minutes
into it and think, “OK, bored now”.
‘The End is Near’ is the final track
and boy is it a ‘Green Day’ song.
It could have come off American Idiot, or any
Green Day album for that matter! Don’t get
me wrong though, it’s cringingly catchy
and a good way to end the album.
‘The Good Fight’ has its upsides,
the singer is talented as are the band as a whole,
it’s just the music is very generic and
doesn’t really stand out in today’s
music scene. I hope they do stick at it and release
another album, with the shackles off. I think
if they gave themselves the freedom of sound rather
than trying to just fit in with everyone else
they could really do well. That said ‘The
Good Fight’ could really have been named
The Mediocre Retreat.
3/5
Review by SI |
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Rob Solly (Vocals,Guitar)
Jonny Shock (Drums)
Sean Mannion (Bass, Vocals)
Matt James (Guitars, Vocals) |
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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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