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Towers Of London - Blood, Sweat & Towers
Release: 2006Label: TVT Records
By: Anders
Posted: Sep 21, 2006
I don't give a shit, straight out of the highway rock with a raw punkish garage attitude, is what Towers Of London presents for us on "Blood, Sweat & Towers". Such music should go in and give the listener a rude awakening and be gripping as hell, so is that the case here? Not really, as much of the music Towers Of London presents sounds very rehashed and a bit rusty here and there.
Take some early old British and US punk bands, mix it up with some catchy melody lines and some good choruses, as in most modern rock music, the rock star attitude Guns N' Roses introduced so well in the mid-80ties and a raw British accent ripping it up. Then you have Towers Of London! The composition of the songs are as such good, it's made of good old well known recipes about where to place the hooks, where and how many catchy choruses there should be in a song and so forth, there have been looked a lot towards the pop-scene in the process of making the skeletons for the songs, which make the song 'Kill The Pop Scene' quite funny.
Not that the music is bad all the way through, there is the sporadic good and listenable track here and there, the starter 'I'm A Rat' is a straight out the highway 3 riff punker, such are always enjoyable once in a while, even though it becomes old quite quick. The "ballad" of the album 'King' is also quite good and mixes strings, punk-rock and a ballad quite good, which actually makes a great track. Though things get old too soon when listening to the album, the guitar tone is the same almost all the way through, the vocals bite the same way most of the time and the rhythm patterns are simple as they should, and doesn't add much to the excitement.
A track or 2 from this album might slide through the eye of the needle and end up with a wee bit of airplay in the radios, and that'll be what can rocket "Blood, Sweat & Towers' as it's made for a younger and pop-oriented audience, as I can't see any punk-rockers getting too excited about this, as it gets too boring too fast and there are too many parallels to older songs and bands a lot of the way along the road, but a nice try at least.
Take some early old British and US punk bands, mix it up with some catchy melody lines and some good choruses, as in most modern rock music, the rock star attitude Guns N' Roses introduced so well in the mid-80ties and a raw British accent ripping it up. Then you have Towers Of London! The composition of the songs are as such good, it's made of good old well known recipes about where to place the hooks, where and how many catchy choruses there should be in a song and so forth, there have been looked a lot towards the pop-scene in the process of making the skeletons for the songs, which make the song 'Kill The Pop Scene' quite funny.
Not that the music is bad all the way through, there is the sporadic good and listenable track here and there, the starter 'I'm A Rat' is a straight out the highway 3 riff punker, such are always enjoyable once in a while, even though it becomes old quite quick. The "ballad" of the album 'King' is also quite good and mixes strings, punk-rock and a ballad quite good, which actually makes a great track. Though things get old too soon when listening to the album, the guitar tone is the same almost all the way through, the vocals bite the same way most of the time and the rhythm patterns are simple as they should, and doesn't add much to the excitement.
A track or 2 from this album might slide through the eye of the needle and end up with a wee bit of airplay in the radios, and that'll be what can rocket "Blood, Sweat & Towers' as it's made for a younger and pop-oriented audience, as I can't see any punk-rockers getting too excited about this, as it gets too boring too fast and there are too many parallels to older songs and bands a lot of the way along the road, but a nice try at least.
Rating: 3/10
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