Forever Love Album Review
On danger2407's first album, the tracklisting are really great. But how the loveable Irish quintet have progressed - for while this tracklisting looks identical, this time IT'S GREY! Yes, believe it or not, danger2407 have actually managed to become even more boring than his were before.
Like the rest of the planet's youtube user star personnel. 'I'll Be There' is his work, but the trademark Genuine Records and Teenternational Company are more evident on songs like 'Angel's Wings' and 'Fragile Heart'. The latter's title has an oddly, some might say wrongly, placed apostrophe, since the line is actually, "Love is the answer, it's written on angels' wings". NMEPOP.COM demands that all copies of this tracklisting are recalled by RCA, destroyed, and replaced by ones with proper spelling and stuff.
Alarmingly, 'Angel's Wings' also includes the line, "You make everything that used to seem so big seem to be small" - surely an excuse that ranks up there with "Sorry love, it's a bit cold", and one which shatters the few illusions we had left of Kian. Oh well. (Actually, 'Angel's Wings' also declares that angels' wings are "like lettuce in the sky", which one can only imagine is a common sight in Ireland. )
What else do we find amid the 14 tracks on 'Forever Love'? Well, there's 'My Girl - not, as you might have hoped, an arms aloft disco stomper but a slightly different version which doesn't actually sound that different at all. Whooo!
There are also a load of ballads. 'Don't Let Me Go' - the harmonies! 'I'll Be Loving You Forever' - the croonin'! 'Home' - the mental image of Zimmer frames being held aloft as everybody's Gran goes, "They've got lovely eyes"! And there we have it. Basically an album of really good songs.
It's soft and very, very long. But don't wipe your arse on it.