Cold War Kids – Loyalty to Loyalty Review
I was first introduced to Cold War Kids as they opened for Muse, in arguably one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. They had a solid show, used a ton of shakers and sounded pretty good. It was good enough to check them out afterwards in which I proceeded to hear Robbers and Cowards. Robbers and Cowards was a top notch album in my opinion, most thought the album was solid (except Pitchfork surprise!) and the album did well with the crowds selling more then 100,000 records or so, the more important thing about advancing Cold War Kids’ career is their sophomore effort, Loyalty to Loyalty.
Anyway this paragraph should simply describe Loyalty to Loyalty:
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT SSSSSSSSSSSSSSsUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
If you didn’t catch the point, I mean “it sucks” and by sucks, I mean horribly. At this point I’m really tempted to end the review right now but I need to do some more bashing, because I absolutely hate this album.
If you read this blog before, I wasn’t a big fan of the first single, “Something Is Not Right With Me”. They did at least give it away for free which is more then what most artists do, but I felt it was a step down from their normal efforts from Robbers & Cowards, lacking something on the forefront. However, after listening to the rest of the album, it became apparent that Something Is Not Right With Me is indeed their best song on this effort.
What makes this album so horrendous? First off it’s incredibly boring. There’s barely anything at the forefront with CWK concentrating more on the rhythm section and Nathan Willett being exposed to his lack of range. There are far too many “silent” and quiet moments that do not work very well because Willett never has a command of the songs when the band isn’t doing something to mask it.
The album starts off with “We don’t gamble, we don’t do the stock exchange” CWK definitely come off as having played it safe and like the current economy has probably went for broke. Other then the rhythm section there’s nothing to like about this album. I don’t know how other people feel since I haven’t seen other opinions but there’s no way I would see many people liking it, it’s such a MUCH weaker effort. Something Is Not Right With Me does give a glimpse of what they can do again but there’s just way too much missing from this album to give it any higher then a 1 out of 5. There’s no emotion either and while it doesn’t necessarily kill the ears, there’s nothing to really like.
Rating: 0.5 out of 5
MP3s (don’t make me choose another song off the album….):
Something Is Not Right With Me by Cold War Kids
Hang Me Up To Dry by Cold War Kids
(off Robbers and Cowards – a very good song indeed)
Tags: album
Dang. That’s just harsh… hahaha…