{"id":26896,"date":"2013-09-10T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-fighting-fiction-the-long-and\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:25:52","slug":"album-review-fighting-fiction-the-long-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-fighting-fiction-the-long-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Fighting Fiction &#8211; The Long And Short Of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_inline_msvibsQOXr1qz4rgp.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Brighton\u2019s <\/span><strong>Fighting Fiction<\/strong><span> return with their second full-length album on September 16th and, for the most part, it\u2019s really rather good. Reminiscent of some of punk\u2019s biggest hitters and with a good slice of other influences on the side, <\/span><em>\u2018The Long And Short Of It\u2019<\/em><span> falls into a lovely niche somewhere in the middle of Bad Religion, Frank Turner, and The Gaslight Anthem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Not every song on this album is as good as the excellent average. I\u2019m not overly taken on the acoustic <em>\u2018Rebel Without a Cause\u2019<\/em>. It\u2019s a good track, a neat bit of storytelling and generally enjoyable, but its position on the album just doesn\u2019t feel justified to me. On the other hand, the following number, <em>\u2018Casey Jones, Union Scab\u2019<\/em> is an absolute belter. The chorus is next level punk rock might. Such a massive swell that I\u2019ve skipped back to the beginning of this track more than a couple of times before I\u2019ve let the album continue just to hear it again. The dual vocals are incredible (not just on this track either, just to clarify) and \u2018<em>Casey Jones\u2019<\/em> is sure to be one of <strong>Fighting Fiction\u2019s<\/strong> most played songs.<!-- more --><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes tracks fall a little flat in places. The majority of <em>\u2018A Common Enemy\u2019<\/em> for example, is amazing. A stomping, sing-along punk anthem, the sort of music that makes me want to stick a fist in the air and start a circle pit in the street. Massive vocals and a near perfect melody, it\u2019s brilliant. But then, for some reason, I\u2019m sucked out of my enjoyment and I\u2019m at a football match on a Saturday afternoon as an awkward chorus of &lsquo;Oh, when the saints go marching in\u2019 breaks the reverie. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love football and I\u2019ll spend every Saturday for the foreseeable future screaming songs at a bunch of dudes who can\u2019t hear me. It\u2019s just not the kind of fun I was having ten seconds before in a chair in my front room.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of a few awkward little moments, however, <em>\u2018The Long And Short Of It\u2019<\/em> is an absolute joy to listen to. Straight up, honest, rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>4.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Long And Short of It&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Fighting Fiction<\/strong> is out on the 16th of September on <strong>Xtra Mile Recordings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fighting Fiction<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightingfiction.com\/Fighting_Fiction\/Fighting_Fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/fightingfiction\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightingFiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/fightingfiction.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>|\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Words by Thomas Knott (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nounandthenouns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nounandthenouns<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton\u2019s Fighting Fiction return with their second full-length album on September 16th and, for the most part, it\u2019s really rather good. Reminiscent of some of punk\u2019s biggest hitters and with a good slice of other influences on the side, \u2018The Long And Short Of It\u2019 falls into a lovely niche somewhere in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,10606,11834],"class_list":["post-26896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-fighting-fiction","tag-the-long-and-short-of-it"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review: Fighting Fiction - The Long And Short Of It - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brighton\u2019s Fighting Fiction return with their second full-length album on September 16th and, for the most part, it\u2019s really rather good. 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