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| 3.0 good | Barksdale | June 7th 22 |
Best Tracks: Rookie of the Year, Bullet Theory, Juneau, Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings, Storytelling, Moments Forever Faded.
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| 2.5 average | EasterInTheBatcave | February 10th 17 |
Fun listen. Emo/post-hardcore combination that is undoubtedly a product of its time, but it's well-made. There are a few great tracks ("Bullet Theory," "Juneau," "Red Is the New Black"), and though some of the material falls through the cracks ("Moments Forever Faded," "Waking Up") there is a nice dose of variety with an acoustic ballad ("Your Revolution Is a Joke") and an extended build-up ("Novella").
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| 5.0 classic | Sevendave | April 11th 16 |
This album grabbed me by the balls back in the day, i then forgot about it until recently.
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| 0.0 | macadoolahicky | March 26th 12 |
This album can definitely bring back some crazy memories. The music itself, however, isn't the band's best.
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| 4.0 excellent | Tokyochuchu | November 12th 09 |
I find that most of the tracks on Funeral For A Friend's debut are stilted and uninteresting. There are a few exceptions, 'Storytelling' is a great slice of heavy hewn pop and the epic 'Red Is The New Black' is flat out awesome. But elsewhere there is a lot of bland, sound-alike emo. Not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
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| 4.5 superb | punks101 | October 18th 08 |
Every beggining hardcore rocker should have this album in his ipod or shelf or computer - it is the ground-level music that everybody has to hear to be inspired as a musician.
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| 0.0 | | May 25th 07 |
I give it a 4.5 because this is when they were good. there new stuff sucks. its not the same, they changed way to much...... there pretty bad now. bland and boring... and they sound like everything else.
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| 3.5 great | jameso187 | February 11th 07 |
Welsh band Funeral For A Friend pull out all the stops for this emo-tinged post-hardcore debut. I'll be honest, after the first track I was thinking to myself "This isn't going to be good" - because a lot of South Wales hardcore bands have fallen into that trap of producing pedestrian albums that just adhere to the clichés of the latest fad genre (see: Bullet For My Valentine and Lostprophets). And after their excellent Four Ways To Scream Your Name EP, I would be terribly disappointed to see Funeral For A Friend follow the same route. Luckily before I had time to press stop 'Bullet Theory' exploded and I recognized the sound of the quintet at their finest, chugging riffs, hard drums, emotional lyrics and vocals that alternate between raw shouts and soft singing. Then the first single 'Juneau' hit with it's melodic riffs and excellent vocal work from Matt Davies and I knew at that point FFAF weren't just going to be a run-of-the-mill emo band. Sure, they may have the pretentious song-titles and the heartbreak-centered lyrics but Funeral For A Friend are in no way throwaway pop.
Songs like 'Escape Artists Never Die' and 'Waking Up' are pure energetic slabs of punk rock that recall early The Get Up Kids material. The dramatics of 'Storytelling' and 'Red Is The New Black' are also welcome and, though sounding somewhat like a mix of Dashboard Confessional and Alexisonfire, they are undeniably powerful. There are a few tracks that don't really hold the same impact and could just as easily be B-Sides, and at times the band sound too similar to their American emo counterparts but, for a debut, it's certainly a solid effort.
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