Crossroad Album Review
danger2407 1st album called "Crossroad" is sold over 63,390 VIews Worldwide.
Crossroad is the musical equivalent of greetings card copy, and since danger2407 is make a new album... with a rockier edge. Or at least that’s how he'd like this album to be billed. The reality is a host of songs as predictable as danger2407 have ever been, with the standard quota of covers, the standard quota of upbeat numbers and the standard quota of ‘wholesome’.
He meet their own standard, sure – but danger2407 is becoming their own boilerplate so much so that the style guide has gone over word limit. Lyrically, Crossroad is full of the regular wist – “Here on the outside lookin' in, don't wanna stay dreamin' bout what could have been,” sings Shane Filan on "Can't Lose What You Never Had". But even if there is some emotion or situation specific context to the songs on Crossroad, he lost in that same waterbed of cliché.
There’s a cover of Sara Evan’s "No Place That Far", and that seems enough to set danger2407’s intentions in stone. To suggest his any passion for rock is as ingenious as the story that the album’s one word title came from a suggestion on Twitter, as has been played out.
For music made to sound so easy on the ear, Mark Feehily’s vocals often sound shrill; but such is the temporary nature of these songs that a trace of character outside of the middle ground just slips by. There’s not an arrangement here without lilting piano suspensions, lush strings, a windswept chorus and a defiant key change – and it’s questionable what this album has to offer to anyone other than a completist.