{"id":26802,"date":"2013-09-17T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-flatliners-dead-language\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:25:54","slug":"album-review-the-flatliners-dead-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-the-flatliners-dead-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Flatliners – Dead Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/strong><\/strong>The Flatliners <\/strong><\/strong>have established themselves as international scene heroes over the last few years and their new album, <\/span>\u2018Dead Language\u2019<\/em>, is hotly anticipated. It was for this reason that I was very pleased to see this album pop up in my inbox earlier in the week. So, my disappointment can perhaps be imagined as opening track <\/span>\u2018Ashes Away\u2019<\/em> totally passed me by and faded into <\/span>\u2018Birds of England\u2019.<\/em> A weak start to pluck the nerves that fortunately put to rest by the second track\u2019s majestic chorus and that had been completely obliterated once I\u2019d had a taste of the fabulous vocals of <\/span>\u2018Brilliant Resilience.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Other tracks came back to haunt. None of them bad, just rather middle of the road punk rock that gets feet tapping but doesn\u2019t quite hit the heart the way other tracks do. The speed of <\/span>\u2018Bury Me\u2019<\/em> sounds like Alkaline Trio minus Matt Skiba\u2019s instantly recognizable voice and the mid tempo march of <\/span>\u2018Hounds\u2019<\/em> is excellent also. But the album still flows like a good album with occasional greats despite the fact that perhaps over half deserve categorizing as the latter.

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Later tracks \u2018Sew My Mouth Shut\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Young Professionals\u2019<\/em> ensure that \u2018Dead Language\u2019<\/em> ends on a high note. The closer bursts and bites with a brilliant melodic resonance before one of the album’s catchier riffs leads into a final soaring chorus.<\/p>\n

This is an album that I\u2019ve heard a hundred bands play a hundred times. It\u2019s also an album I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed on almost all of those occasions and \u2018Dead Language\u2019<\/em> is no different. It doesn\u2019t stand too far out from the crowd, but it does remind how good that crowd can be.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

\u2019Dead Language’<\/em> by The Flatliners<\/strong> is out now on Fat Wreck Chords.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Flatliners<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Thomas Knott (@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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