Talk:Future Hearts

Rocksound review

For anyone who wants to write this into the article, this is the Rocksound review of the album:

ALL TIME LOW [7/10]
FUTURE HEARTS (Hopeless records)

They might only be a decade in, but Baltimore poppunks All Time Low have condensed a lifetime’s-worth of highs and lows into their career so far. Their ’07 effort ‘So Wrong, It’s Right’ was the cult hit, ’09’s ‘Nothing Personal’ the crossover smash, ’11’s ‘Dirty Work’ their major label fumble and ‘Don’t Panic’ their return to form. So with the arrival of their sixth album, what pages are there left for this band to turn?

Quite a few as it happens, because ‘Future Hearts’ is unlike anything they’ve produced before. In places it sticks to the classic blueprint – simple, chorus-heavy pop rock with the occasional snarling vocal – but in others, there’s more than a hint of experimentation and a wider vision. Production supremo John Feldmann has had a big hand in this baby, and it’s their shiniest, most polished full-length to date, but even he has pushed the boat out in terms of what he’s wanted to achieve sonically here. Album opener ‘Satellite’ sounds like something off the tail end of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ – all rolling drums and dense gang vocals that build to a dramatic climax – before collapsing upon itself into the thumping one-two of ‘Kicking & Screaming’ and towering comeback single ‘Something’s Gotta Give’. The former is the fast-paced, saucy All Time Low with which we’ve become familiar, the latter needs no introduction.

The rest of the record is a mixed bag, too. ‘Missing You’ is all “oooohs” and ukulele strumming, while ‘Cinderblock Garden’ is yet another blast of punchy, classic All Time Low. ‘Tidal Waves’ sees that man Mark Hoppus lending his voice to one of the album’s finest moments (which is far more impressive than Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden on the surf-pop of ‘Bail Me Out’ that follows). Curiously, they’ve tacked the best song onto the end of the album, immediately after the worst. ‘The Edge Of Tonight’ sees the four-piece taking things a little too left field and sounding like a ‘Lift A Sail’-era Yellowcard ballad (and the less said about that the better), drenched in delayed drums and autotuned vocals, but then ‘Old Scars / Future Hearts’ finishes everything on an anthemic, chart-bothering high. It’s easily their catchiest tune since ‘Weightless’, and if they say they didn’t have arenas at the front of their minds when they wrote the “This life is mine to live” refrain, they’re lying.

Overall, ‘Future Hearts’ isn’t going to rub any All Time Low fans up the wrong way, and it’s got enough radio singles within its 40-odd minutes to pretty much guarantee it’ll take them to that next level they’ve been gagging to reach. With one arena tour already under their belts, stadiums are next on the checklist, and with this album, that notion looks less and less like a wild pipe dream. Is ‘Future Hearts’ conflicted in places? Absolutely. Is it a return to the sagginess of ‘Dirty Work’, or a bump in the road? Not at all.

FOR FANS OF: Yellowcard, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Green Day

Writer: ANDY RITCHIE

Thanks for adding that! It was a great read before the album's out. Noreplyhaha (talk) 15:44, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

References

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2015

Please change the personnel on this page from Ryan Ross to Jack Barakat because the actual guitarist of All Time Low is Jack Barakat and Ryan Ross is a former member of the pand Panic! At The Disco.

Ghjklfh (talk) 21:30, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Amortias (T)(C) 17:56, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I can't believe that reliable sources were just asked as a requirement to fix the guitarist from Ryan Ross to Jack Barakat...Noreplyhaha (talk) 11:19, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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