{"id":28937,"date":"2013-05-17T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-night-birds-maimed-for-the-masses\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:17:09","slug":"album-review-night-birds-maimed-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-night-birds-maimed-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Night Birds &#8211; Maimed for the Masses EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tumblr_inline_mmwlrr30Gn1qztcot.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\u2018Maimed For The Masses\u2019<\/em> is a taster EP for <strong>Night Birds&rsquo;<\/strong> forthcoming full length, <em>\u2018Born To Die in Suburbia\u2019<\/em>, and unfortunately the New York based quartet haven\u2019t inspired me to rush out and grab a copy just yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The title track is an up-tempo but routine three minute punk-rock effort that is crying out for a vocal melody or a high point which just never materialises. It\u2019s perfectly listenable but not once do you get that desire to hit repeat and run at it again (unless, of course, you\u2019re reviewing it and feel like five listens is a suitable judge). \u2018<em>Barred Out\u2019<\/em> and \u2018<em>Last Gasp<\/em>\u2019 both follow a similar suit. We\u2019re promised passion and guts on the press release yet I just don\u2019t hear anything that\u2019s fresh or new here.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The closer, <em>\u2018Boat Trash\u2019<\/em>, is just a few yelps away from a fairly exciting and adventurous instrumental two minutes but again it\u2019s hardly breaking the mould.\u00a0<!-- more --><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&lt;a href=&ldquo;http:\/\/night-birds.bandcamp.com\/album\/maimed-for-the-masses&rdquo; data-mce-href=&ldquo;http:\/\/night-birds.bandcamp.com\/album\/maimed-for-the-masses&rdquo;&gt;Maimed for the Masses by Night Birds&lt;\/a&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years you\u2019ve learnt to trust Fat Wreck for their excellent releases and dedication to the more brash punk-rock that isn\u2019t always likely to bother radio stations, mainstream music magazines or sell out arenas. Whilst every record label loves a success story, you\u2019ve always felt the label remained true to their roots regardless and that\u2019s exactly what we see with <strong>Night Birds<\/strong>. It\u2019s not remotely close to ground breaking and there isn\u2019t much longevity, its gritty punk-rock that\u2019s fun for a few moments and swiftly forgotten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>2\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>&lsquo;Maimed for the Masses&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Night Birds<\/strong> is available now on <strong>Fat Wreck Chords<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Night Birds<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/night-birds.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NGHTBRDS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NGHTBRDS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Words by Tom Beck<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Maimed For The Masses\u2019 is a taster EP for Night Birds&rsquo; forthcoming full length, \u2018Born To Die in Suburbia\u2019, and unfortunately the New York based quartet haven\u2019t inspired me to rush out and grab a copy just yet. The title track is an up-tempo but routine three minute punk-rock effort that is crying out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8181],"tags":[5879,12611,4575],"class_list":["post-28937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-post","tag-album-reviews","tag-maimed-for-the-masses","tag-night-birds"],"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: Night Birds - Maimed for the Masses EP - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u2018Maimed For The Masses\u2019 is a taster EP for Night Birds&rsquo; forthcoming full length, \u2018Born To Die in Suburbia\u2019, and unfortunately the New York based\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Album Review: Night Birds - Maimed for the Masses EP - Already Heard Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u2018Maimed For The Masses\u2019 is a taster EP for Night Birds&rsquo; 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