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| 1.5 very poor | EasterInTheBatcave | February 3rd 17 |
Pretty bland overall. "Monsters" is head and shoulders above the rest of the songs. "Streetcar" is pretty good too, I guess, but it doesn't blow me away. A couple of cheesy but endearing ballads are present, too ("History," "Drive"). You could do a lot worse than Hours, but I'm not going to provide it a ringing endorsement. Note there are almost no screams here -- the band is going in a poppier direction (that's not an indictment, but an observation).
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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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| 0.0 | macadoolahicky | 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 | industrialjunkie92 | 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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| 3.5 great | Andersn | February 12th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Halez | March 18th 23 |
| 3.0 good | Jalapeno CONTRIBUTOR | January 28th 23 |
| 3.5 great | memnite | November 27th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Jadari | August 16th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Teal | February 28th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nbehre11 | November 11th 21 |
| 3.5 great | xlev | September 20th 21 |
| 3.0 good | teo | July 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | May 2nd 21 |
| 2.5 average | IlNotta | November 9th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Joe92 | October 23rd 20 |
| 3.5 great | Skiiddz | September 27th 20 |
| 3.5 great | shira | July 14th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | shem | July 9th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | dred87 | May 28th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Futures | April 2nd 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | benny06 | January 10th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | DiGio991 | November 22nd 19 |
| 3.5 great | vult | October 25th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Uzumaki | September 9th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Benjii | June 10th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | josh | June 10th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Adamn | May 8th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Josh | February 24th 19 |
| 3.5 great | crab | February 22nd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | xfortinx | February 17th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Simon K. STAFF | October 31st 18 |
| 4.5 superb | VikkiH | March 6th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dromasta | February 24th 18 |
| 3.0 good | OllieS | December 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jake E. | October 4th 17 |
| 3.5 great | AriDoe | August 23rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | gschwen | August 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | snakesc | June 21st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | sjurd | April 26th 17 |
| 3.5 great | El Olam | December 22nd 16 |
| 3.5 great | Omeggia | December 10th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Ambrisa | October 29th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | McJesus | September 6th 16 |
| 3.0 good | SB129 | June 10th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | February 11th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Shukal | January 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | ellagos | November 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | PanAle | October 27th 15 |
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| 3.5 great | jsaf7 | June 14th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Dylan | March 15th 15 |
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| 5.0 classic | Kurai | October 22nd 14 |
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| 4.0 excellent | MaggieG | July 16th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Dirkz | July 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | TJM1992 | February 17th 14 |
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| 5.0 classic | mchydez | January 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kaiiser | January 8th 14 |
| 3.5 great | akimbo | January 2nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | Feels | December 16th 13 |
| 3.0 good | wil94 | November 4th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | hudso | October 29th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Rice303 | September 26th 13 |
| 3.5 great | jmh886 | August 29th 13 |
| 3.5 great | t1gxrs | August 15th 13 |
| 3.0 good | tlhk | June 15th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | abaeza | April 26th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Glokta | April 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | NCG | February 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | CK | February 11th 13 |
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| 4.5 superb | pbass0 | January 29th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | drz89 | January 26th 13 |
| 3.0 good | kb36 | January 23rd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Pndi | January 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | mybeard | December 10th 12 |
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| 4.0 excellent | bain89 | March 10th 12 |
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| 5.0 classic | RobH | February 16th 12 |
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| 4.5 superb | Zunge | September 8th 11 |
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| 3.5 great | Trey STAFF | June 14th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | thecwo | June 9th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Bauls | April 19th 11 |
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| 4.5 superb | Savill | June 29th 09 |
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| 4.5 superb | Bramm | February 13th 09 |
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| 3.5 great | mkCII | December 15th 08 |
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