By A Web Design
YOUNG GUNS
YOUNG GUNS
Bones
Live Forever / Liberator
Brit-rockers Young Guns have just dropped their sophomore album Bones, and it doesn’t live up to expectations.
Title track Bones is weak and unoriginal, Towers (On My Way) sounds like every punk song ever written complete with angry ‘woah-oh’s’. I Was Born, I Have Lived, I Will Surely Die and Headlights are the least offensive, both pleasantly listenable rock tracks heading towards a heavier edge. A Hymn For All I’ve Lost and You Are Not will appeal if you’ve just had a break-up and are too tough to listen to Adele.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this record is that there is no defined sound, and the only consistency is the confusion felt at the shitfight between pretentiously produced punk-pop and almost-rock. This is also unfortunately reflected in frontman Gustav Wood’s vocals, which fluctuate between classic rock baritone and strained whining.
Young Guns have always received relatively positive press, and are often compared to fellow Brit-rockers You Me At Six – and their debut All Our Kings Are Dead definitely reflected that. But Bones has thrown them out of that ball park and back a few steps.
This reviewer usually has an embarrassing penchant for whiny punk-pop, but this record is far too over-produced, auto-tuned and undefined to stick up for.
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