Athlete
Two more albums I recently purchased are Vehicles & Animals and Tourist Athlete's debut album and their newly released follow up. Vehicles & Animals is an almost completely original, humorous self assured funky pop record, featuring many songs that probably sound-tracked one of your previous summers such as El Salvador Westside and You Got The Style. Highly enjoyable and instantly likeable and deserving of it's accolades. 9/10.
Strange then, that Athlete decided to take the direction they have done for the follow up Tourist, which may well have turned one of the most original British bands of the last few years into one of the most un-original. First single off the album Wires is likeable and radio-friendly so you are likely to have heard it being overplayed, it contains a certain amount of sentimentally and the lead singers trademark vocals, vocals which sadly grate on other songs on the album. In fact most of the album plays like a watered down Snow Patrol. It's fine to re-invent yourself in the music industry but the change here is so noticeable you would be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a different band altogether. Songs Chances and Half Light just sound like Coldplay would if they were rubbish. The album title track Tourist saves the day, they obviously knew it was by far one of the strongest tracks on the album and song Twenty Four Hours is also pretty good. Disappointing then? A missed opitunity? Sadly, yes and yes. 4/10
Strange then, that Athlete decided to take the direction they have done for the follow up Tourist, which may well have turned one of the most original British bands of the last few years into one of the most un-original. First single off the album Wires is likeable and radio-friendly so you are likely to have heard it being overplayed, it contains a certain amount of sentimentally and the lead singers trademark vocals, vocals which sadly grate on other songs on the album. In fact most of the album plays like a watered down Snow Patrol. It's fine to re-invent yourself in the music industry but the change here is so noticeable you would be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a different band altogether. Songs Chances and Half Light just sound like Coldplay would if they were rubbish. The album title track Tourist saves the day, they obviously knew it was by far one of the strongest tracks on the album and song Twenty Four Hours is also pretty good. Disappointing then? A missed opitunity? Sadly, yes and yes. 4/10
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