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| 3.5 great | KatatoNick | June 20th 12 |
One of my favourite albums from my teen-angst years, I regularly found myself skipping to
"The End Of Nothing" to do a bit of screaming!
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| 4.0 excellent | Tim Bartolini | March 26th 12 |
Hours is definitely the essential Funeral For A Friend album. It contains some of the band's top singles and is a great transition album between the post-hardcore / emo sound they once bore and the alternative rock sound they've begun to explore on their third release.
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| 4.0 excellent | mastille | February 8th 12 |
What they lack in musical innovation they make up in passion and tangible emotion, while keeping a foot out of the mainstream and predictable formulae. I think the first three songs are some of the best of the recent genre, but the album is strong throughout. Listen to those riffs and liken the lyrics to experiences you've had to whenever you've felt outcast, if the romance angle doesn't chime with you. Vocals to me are less whiney than those of some other 'emo-lyric' bands (Jack's Mannequin, The Get Up Kids to an extent...). Weaker on some slower songs, though.
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| 3.5 great | Crowe | July 21st 11 |
I know a number of people, both on the internet and those actual really breathing kind, that would say Funeral For A Friend got them into 'harder' music when they were growing up. And in looking into the band's discography recently, I can see why: decent guitar work from a band in this scene of clean-harsh vocal, love-lorn catchy post-hardcore stuff. It's music hard enough for you to jam to when you're in the bottom numeric half of your teens and great for setting up nostalgic moments for years later. Of course this album though, Hours, like Funeral For A Friend's work before and after, sounds different than the rest. It's here that they were at their best, I believe; no offense to Ryan Richards, but the guy can't fucking scream, and luckily his presence is way more scaled back than it was on debutCasually Dressed & Deep in Conversation. Instead, you have the band bringing a rather consistent bunch of marketable hard-hitting songs about relationships - no needless bull shit about sailing ships or whatever like on its 2007 follow-up, Tales Don't Tell Themselves. The singles here, particularly "All The Rage" and "Streetcar", are Funeral For A Friend's best songs, and as a whole, Hours bests the band's recent 'return-to-form' - or whatever the critics call that shit - Welcome Home Armageddon rather easily. The band need to get rid of the screams of Richards and go back to the style of this album: Hours was definitely when Funeral For A Friend were at their best, skip-able tracks aside of course.
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| 4.5 superb | munchman92 | March 14th 10 |
a rollercoaster of emotion, a perfectly display of angst and aggression.
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| 4.0 excellent | punks101 | October 18th 08 |
Hours has many inspirational and technical guitar riffs - one of the best dynamic guitar riffs in any album of recent date. Guitarists should listen to this album for mind melting licking - plus the song writing is solid and gives you something to sing along to.
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| 3.0 good | David Ham | August 6th 08 |
Fun but flawed, they love to screech but it doesn't really amount to any sort of viable climax.
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| 5.0 classic | AmericnZero02 | August 6th 07 |
The perfect blend of heavy and melodic tracks. I can listen to this album at any time of the day and during any mood I'm in because there will always be at least one song that perfectly matches how I'm feeling at the time. Funeral ditches a fair amount of what was heard on previous releases and fuses the rest with more of a mainstream sound. Kris and Darren's guitarwork is outstanding and Gareth's voice is a sufficient stubstitute for Ryan's. While the songs are great at face value, there are tons of subtle lines and beats that leave listeners finding something new every time they listen to it.
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| 4.0 excellent | ciara101 | January 22nd 07 |
I love this band prob one of my favs not their best album but still pretty darn good... i hope they come to th u.k it would be awesome to get to see them... m/ rock on
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| 4.0 excellent | letitbebroke | October 22nd 06 |
Wow. Hats off to Funeral for a Friend they really managed to get away from a stereotype and have really made it far in a business where American bands dominate. It took me a while to warm to Funeral For A Friend, and after getting a few of their tracks I woould only listen to 'Roses for the dead'. After a while however i slowly began listening to the other songs i had by them and I really began liking the band and they really grew on me. After listening to 'History' i was hooked and that song inspired me so much i just think that it is a classic yet so simple. I love the lyrics and poetry they have used throughout the album from their ballads to their up tempo songs. FFAF well done.
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| 5.0 classic | Vikki182 | July 19th 06 |
This album was the first FFAF album I had ever bought, the first I'd heard of the band in fact. But I am so glad I got this one. Songs like 'Roses For The Dead' and 'Streetcar' are unbeatable but the only dissapointment I had with this CD was that it was only 43 Minutes long.
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| 2.5 average | hikki | May 3rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | abaeza | April 26th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Glokta | April 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | NCG | February 26th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | ZoneOut | January 30th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | pbass0 | January 28th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | drz89 | January 26th 13 |
| 3.0 good | kb36 | January 22nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pndi | January 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | mybeard | December 9th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Streams | December 5th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Chris | November 29th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Happy | November 21st 12 |
| 3.5 great | akimbo | October 4th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Kaz64 | July 6th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | SourAK | June 15th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Dev518 | April 30th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Thomas | April 6th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | bain89 | March 9th 12 |
| 3.5 great | vinceG | March 8th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | RobH | February 16th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Vasckin | February 7th 12 |
| 3.5 great | MTTS | February 5th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Ian | December 22nd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | 20eyes | November 12th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jon Day | November 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shukal | October 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty | October 21st 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Widower | September 29th 11 |
| 3.0 good | the666 | September 22nd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Zunge | September 8th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Javier | September 7th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Tatou | August 13th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | thecwo | June 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Bauls | April 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | helmi | April 17th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | NoFace | April 1st 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Dan | March 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | mullo | March 15th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Elwood | March 10th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | RFGM | March 8th 11 |
| 3.5 great | IRAI | March 6th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | cappoq | February 19th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Apollo | February 8th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Plank | January 10th 11 |
| 3.5 great | BG | January 4th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | boeoz | December 16th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | A7X92 | December 15th 10 |
| 3.5 great | mrnic3 | November 5th 10 |
| 2.5 average | jubilee | October 28th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Austin | October 10th 10 |
| 3.5 great | seifer | October 8th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | September 30th 10 |
| 3.5 great | DeskmaN | September 29th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Jeggs | September 28th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | IN64 | September 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | wy2sl0 | September 23rd 10 |
| 3.5 great | mmordeg | September 12th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Del Mar | September 6th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shawn | August 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | dgrona | August 9th 10 |
| 3.0 good | shibby | August 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | nff457 | July 31st 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lewis | June 30th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | KotoFtw | June 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Naffa | April 14th 10 |
| 3.0 good | musick | March 27th 10 |
| 3.5 great | gaz | February 24th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | CutMan | February 19th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Jericho | February 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | January 26th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | azmodai | January 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Markk1 | January 18th 10 |
| 3.0 good | sp4585 | January 8th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | ART36 | December 30th 09 |
| 3.5 great | ThePove | December 28th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | soap91 | December 23rd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | BlissX | December 9th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom Tom | November 10th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | joshrm | November 4th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Marver | October 17th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | stooboy | September 24th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | Charlie | August 24th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Groink | August 7th 09 |
| 3.0 good | sin69 | July 18th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Savill | June 29th 09 |
| 3.0 good | GBJ | May 25th 09 |
| 3.5 great | Motiv3 | April 19th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Bramm | February 13th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Yotimi | December 24th 08 |
| 3.5 great | mkCII | December 15th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Dan H. | November 29th 08 |
| 3.0 good | sneasy | November 12th 08 |
| 2.0 poor | disill | November 12th 08 |
| 4.5 superb | Ryder88 | November 10th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Warborn | October 25th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | TehEric | October 12th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | yty | October 6th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | f2f | September 23rd 08 |
| 3.5 great | bigmo99 | September 6th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | btbam99 | August 28th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Corey | August 12th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | a49das | August 4th 08 |
| 3.5 great | lan | August 4th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | mgmg | July 1st 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | kazzra | June 7th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Odium | June 4th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Bobby | April 12th 08 |
| 3.5 great | zuzek | January 18th 08 |
| 3.0 good | donovr | December 12th 07 |
| 4.0 excellent | kornass | November 26th 07 |
| 3.5 great | AFI084 | November 14th 07 |
| 3.5 great | starla | August 26th 07 |
| 3.5 great | Conor | August 12th 07 |
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