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When I heard the debut single ‘You’re
The Designers, We’re The Deciders’ by
Not Advised well over a year ago, I was instantly
impressed with the band and tipped them for big
things, and since then the band have completed many
headline tours across the UK as well as sharing
the stage with bands such as You Me At Six, Kids
In Glass Houses, The Blackout and many other heavy
weight poppy-punk bands from the UK scene. Not Advised
also managed to take some time out to write and
record their new EP ‘Fight For This’
which is due for release on the 14th September.
‘Fight For This’ is an 5 track EP,
and each song shines for its own individual reason,
for example listen to ‘A Red Light Situation’
the song starts off sounding like a song from
the classic Armor For Sleep album ‘What
To Do When You Are Dead’, but then suddenly
that comparison goes away as the song goes off
on its own melodic route as the guys from Not
Advised conquer the poppy punk sound in their
own infectious way.
‘Right Now’ is a proper chant-a-long
song that is bound to become a fan favourite at
the bands gigs in the future as I can already
imagine thousands of Not Advised fans singing
along to the infectious chorus.
‘The Arc’ has a really strong Fall
Out Vibe about it, the song wouldn’t look
to far out of place on the bands ‘Infinity
On High’ album and to me that is a good
point as we the 5 songs on the EP Not Advised
have shown that first of all they are not one
hit wonders as they can write great songs time
and time again, they have also shown that they
can slightly change their overall music style
to help make each song sound different and they
are also clearly not shy on letting people know
who they are influenced by.
‘Jane Says Left’ is another infectious
chant-a-long song that is going to become a fan
favourite with floods of fans singing “Woaaah,
there’s something different in here, I can
feel it”, this is how poppy-punk should
be, really infectious and played with such passion.
‘The World’s Not Ready’ is
also an infectious song but in a more chilled
out way, as the song appears to be a lot more
toned down from the other song’s on the
EP but will batter your vocals chords just as
much as the other songs on the EP especially as
you sing along “I found a way, to keep you
coming, to keep you coming”.
It’s safe to say that major success is
just around the corner for Not Advised now, they
have a fantastic infectious poppy-punk sound that
it is so strong that they could easily challenge
some of the biggest American poppy-punk bands,
if Not Advised continue doing what they are doing
then one day they will be right up there with
bands such as New Found Glory and Fall Out Boy
and to be honest they are pretty much there already
sound wise.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Greg Day (Bass, Vocals)
Jack Fairbrother (Guitar)
Ash Oliver (Guitar, Vocals)
James Thomas (Vocals)
Andy White (Drums) |
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1. A Red Light Situation
2. Right Now
3. The A.R.K.
4. Jane Says Left
5. The World's Not Ready |
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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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