Twin Atlantic // Great Divide
They want the arenas and by crikey this makes it obvious.
Twin Atlantic // Great Divide, Red Bull Records
Three years and 300 gigs on from their debut album, alternative rockers Twin Atlantic are aiming for the stadiums with their third album.
At times this sounds like those covers that pepper the Live Lounge sessions. Heart And Soul could be Scouting For Girls doing Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again. Hold On is The Manics doing U2, Cell Mate the Rasmus doing Europe. If Bon Jovi ever covered Pink, it wouldn’t sound that far from Fall Into The Party.
Single Brothers and Sisters is the highlight of the album, a driving anthem that recalls fellow Scots Frightened Rabbit and Aereogramme. Stomper I Am An Animal runs it pretty close. Oceans on the other hand is the low point, the kind of turgid ballad that will see far too much emoting by an X Factor hopeful.
In truth, this album will probably be huge, the band will fill those stadiums and I’ll look a plank for this review but, for the most part, this is just too considered, too calculated, too damned desperate for success to press my buttons.
Pavlis (4/10)
Twin Atlantic // Great Divide, Red Bull Records
Three years and 300 gigs on from their debut album, alternative rockers Twin Atlantic are aiming for the stadiums with their third album.
At times this sounds like those covers that pepper the Live Lounge sessions. Heart And Soul could be Scouting For Girls doing Whitesnake’s Here I Go Again. Hold On is The Manics doing U2, Cell Mate the Rasmus doing Europe. If Bon Jovi ever covered Pink, it wouldn’t sound that far from Fall Into The Party.
Single Brothers and Sisters is the highlight of the album, a driving anthem that recalls fellow Scots Frightened Rabbit and Aereogramme. Stomper I Am An Animal runs it pretty close. Oceans on the other hand is the low point, the kind of turgid ballad that will see far too much emoting by an X Factor hopeful.
In truth, this album will probably be huge, the band will fill those stadiums and I’ll look a plank for this review but, for the most part, this is just too considered, too calculated, too damned desperate for success to press my buttons.
Pavlis (4/10)
