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Fightstar are back with their third album ‘Be
Human’ and its pretty damn fantastic, it’s
weird to think that Fightstar only came on the scene
in 2005 and in that time they have released one
EP, three albums, various different singles and
have toured with some of the biggest bands in the
alternative music industry with some of their biggest
shows being on the Kerrang tour in January 2008
and also supporting Feeder later in the year, now
that is an impressive history for a band that have
only been together for 4 years and with ‘Be
Human’ only just being released they have
a lot more good times ahead.
Even though Fightstar have now proved that they
are a serious rock band and have shook off all
those Busted remarks they still tend to work extremely
hard and ‘Be Human’ is the biggest
sounding album the band have released to date
and this time on a label called Search And Destroy
which is a label they set up with their management
company Raw power Management as Gut records the
label they were on previously went into administration
at the end of 2008.
As mentioned above I can’t praise ‘Be
Human’ enough it is one hell of an Epic
sounding album and in places the songs sound that
they have come from some major Hollywood blockbuster
movies. The album starts with ‘Calling On
All Stations’ which starts off with a big
orchestra sounding introduction with Charlie’s
vocals coming in softly, the song packs a really
big sound throughout sounding like some kind of
big cinematic style music.
The first song that Fightstar previewed from ‘Be
Human’, was ‘The English Way’
when they released it as the first back in November,
the song instantly became one of my favourite
Fightstar songs and it still is now, the way that
the song builds up and features big cinematic
orchestra sounds is epic in my eyes and Charlie’s
vocals couldn’t sound any better than they
do here, the song is about trying to rebuild the
broken English society and Fightstar have covered
this topic is such an epic way.
Carrying on the big cinematic sound is ‘War
Machine’ it starts off sounding like something
from an sci-fi movie as a spaceship zooms by then
suddenly out of nowhere it morphs in sound and
ends up sounding very similar to the music from
Saw the movie when all the puzzles are put together,
overall ‘War Machine’ is an massive
sounding track mainly for its full on cinematic
feel but also for the extremely repetitive but
lovable vocals of “I'm not a war machine,
I'm not a war machine, I'm not a war machine,
and now you'll never have to know”, which
Charlie sings in such an amazing way.
The current fightstar single ‘Mercury Summer’
makes a good midway point for the album and could
easily be the song of the summer as it’s
a straight forward light sounding melodic song
that has radio friendliness written all over it
which would explain why it was released as a single
after all.
Each and every song on ‘Be Human’
is different from the last, there are really slow
breezy moments such as ‘Give Me The Sky,
there are really melodic moments such as ‘Mercury
Summer’, really hard hitting moments such
as ‘’Damocles’ which has so
much anger unleashed, many cinematic moments but
overall everything sounds ever so epic.
Fightstar have totally out done themselves this
time around, ‘Be Human’ was a huge
risk in the way that it was a step in a totally
different direction from their previous albums
but the change in direction has totally paid off
and I can guarantee that ‘Be Human’
will be spinning in my CD player for a long time
to come.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Alex Westaway (Vocals, Guitar)
Charlie Simpson (Vocals, Guitar)
Dan Haigh (Bass)
Omar Abidi (Drums) |
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1. Calling On All Stations
2. The English Way
3. War Machine
4. Never Change
5. Colours Bleed to Red
6. The Whisperer
7. Mercury Summer
8. Give Me The Sky
9. Chemical Blood
10. Tonight We Burn
11. Damocles
12. Follow Me Into The Darkness |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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