Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
|
Product Description
Review
Last year Young Guns performed their largest headline show to date, an evening at the 2,000-capacity Forum in London’s Kentish Town. It was the biggest night of their professional lives, and when the stage lights broke (and remained broken for the rest of the evening) so too did the headliners’ hearts. But faced with this calamity, frontman Gustav Wood led the band through an hour’s worth of music that could be heard even if the group could not be seen; with single-handedness and single-mindedness he saved the night. In doing so, and without knowing it, he marked out his group as ones to watch.
Bones is a fiery yet melodious modern rock album made by a band who may come to regret their name should they survive to become old hands. The quintet’s songs are built from the beat up – it’s not difficult to imagine their drummer attacking his kit like a monkey at a salad bar – but atop such emphasis sits many a strong chorus and a good deal of high production values.
This last quality is, though, both one of Bones’ strengths and one of its weaknesses. Young Guns find themselves in a meat market crowded with many similar groups, all of whom have a keen eye for a chorus and a strong sense of modern technology. Of those Auto-Tuned to the nines, not all from a class that includes You Me at Six, The Blackout, Deaf Havana and Kids in Glass Houses (to name only a few) will survive for even the medium, let alone the long haul.
Whether or not Young Guns have the stamina, talent and charisma to outlive the cull is not a question fully answered by the music made here.
--Ian Winwood
Find more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
CD Description
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
I needn't have worried.
This whole album is filled with brilliant songs, even the interlude is a stand up track that I really enjoy listening to.
Starting with a powerful opening track "I Was Born, I Have Lived, I Will Surely Die" you find many fast-paced anthems and slower but equally powerful tracks.
Not only is this album excellent musically but the songs all have really good lyrics, (which I won't spoil for you here) which is something we really need in the dark days of Bieber-fever
Favourites;
I Was Born, I Have Lived, I Will Surely Die
Towers (On My Way)
You Are Not
such a beautiful album they really deserve all the success with this second album
BUY THIS ALBUM!
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
