{"id":20415,"date":"2014-08-06T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-a-new-day-forever-tonight\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:08:56","slug":"album-review-a-new-day-forever-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-a-new-day-forever-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: A New Day – Forever Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"Essex four-piece A New Day<\/strong> like to keep things simple. They keep things so simple in fact, that they make Simple Plan (a considerable influence on the band) sound like math rock. But as everyone who loves pop music can attest to, there\u2019s every bit as much skill involved in writing well with three chords as with more complex structures.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to lie to you, if you aren\u2019t into the more pop-orientated sensibilities of the rock spectrum you may as well stop reading now, because these guys are about a hair\u2019s breadth away from Five Seconds of Summer. It\u2019s chart music with some punky edged guitars in. It\u2019s about girls, sunsets and high hopes\u00a0 \u2013 so if you\u2019re looking for bad attitudes, the smashing of systems or beefy breakdowns, then look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We\u2019re talking sugary sweet, misty-eyed college rock. But it\u2019s definitely got more cut and thrust to it than many of their stateside peers. The chorus of first track \u2018Boyfriend\u2019<\/em> has got real verve to it with lead and rhythm guitar combining slickly to give their sound plenty of va-va-voom.<\/p>\n

\u2018Call You Mine\u2019<\/em> recalls \u2018Take Off Your Pants and Jacket\u2019<\/em> era Blink-182 minus the swears. It\u2019s got a real feel-good vibe to it, a kind of adolescent excited nervousness that reminds me of listening to pop punk in my bedroom and wondering how many cool things I\u2019d do when travelling the world with my band. It\u2019s free of cynicism and full of optimism and it\u2019s hard not to warm to.<\/p>\n

The last song of the three track EP, \u2018Faith In Me\u2019<\/em>, is the only real let-down. It lacks the character and vigour of the other two tracks has quite a few annoying bits in like a really throwaway woah-ohhh bit and the fact they actually use \u201chey ho let\u2019s go!\u201d<\/em> as a backing vocal at one point which feels a like a desperate punk reference.<\/p>\n

Overall though, this is a stirling debut from a bunch of lads who have got plenty of time on their side, and really know how to channel their optimism into their music.<\/p>\n

3\/5<\/p>\n

‘Forever Tonight’<\/em> by A New Day<\/strong> is out now.<\/p>\n

A New Day<\/strong> links: Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a>|Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Alex Phelan (@listen_to_alex<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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