{"id":30421,"date":"2013-03-12T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-wounds-die-young\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:14:23","slug":"album-review-wounds-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-wounds-die-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Wounds &#8211; Die Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/woundsalbum.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Wounds\u2019<\/span><\/strong><span> latest offering is really rather good. Having gone through hell and back to put this album together \u2013 the front cover features the massive scarring suffered by guitarist James Coogan from a fall that almost cost him his life \u2013 the band have finally made it to release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Die Young\u2019 <\/em>opens with <em>\u2018Killing Spree\u2019<\/em>, a balls to the wall slice of dirty punk rock reminiscent of He Is Legend circa <em>\u2018I Am Hollywood\u2019<\/em>. It\u2019s a beast and once the backing vocals hit the boards it\u2019s one of the strongest songs on the album. Fan favourite <em>\u2018Dead Dead Fucking Dead\u2019<\/em> reappears on this album, a whopping slice of dirty rock and roll that whilst occasionally having a little bit of a tacky edge is so rollocking that it gets away with it. Whilst this semi-cheesy element does affect some songs \u2013 <em>\u2018No Future\u2019 <\/em>feels just a tad too theatrical for example \u2013 as a whole <em>\u2018Die Young\u2019<\/em> has more than enough of a punk rock rattle running through it to shrug off any doubts you might have.<!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fifth track, <em>\u2018Choke\u2019<\/em> is pure sleaze, but it\u2019s a potentially brilliant song let down by disappointing rhythm. The heavier chunks soar but it\u2019s ever held back by what I can only describe as something of a techno vibe. <em>\u2018Die Young\u2019<\/em> on the whole begs for fists held high in sweaty back rooms, raw voices and bruises in abundance. <em>\u2018Choke\u2019, <\/em>however, seems to beg more for a spandex clad Robot flashmob. I may be hyperbolizing, if only a little. It\u2019s an odd song for this album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fortunately, next track <em>\u2018Bombs\u2019<\/em> saves the day. Hitting the nail so hard on the head it splinters into a thousand dirty punk rock splinters. The vocal performance on this track is absolutely storming, the guitars \u2013 beautifully produced throughout the whole album \u2013 keep the energy at critical mass and the awkward 80s party of <em>\u2018Choke\u2019 <\/em>is well and truly slaughtered. Thankfully, no one told <em>\u2018Desperate Times<\/em>\u2019 that the party was over and resultantly we get the best song on the album. Three and a half minutes of utterly blinding rock and roll, a breakdown capable not only of curing <strong>Wounds\u2019<\/strong> own techno lapse but also causing me to forget the whole sordid genre for a time. Singer Aidan wrote this track at his brother James\u2019 side as the latter recovered from his near death fall and the demons that come with such life altering events should be sent running by this exorcism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">From here <em>\u2018Die Young\u2019 <\/em>holds true to the end. Intense enough to harbor a passable \u2018Woo!\u2019 on <em>\u2018The Pile\u2019<\/em> and always feeling honest and organic, <strong>Wounds <\/strong>can hold their heads high in the face of any who thought their moment had been missed. This album is certainly rough around the edges, sometimes it doesn\u2019t quite go how you might want it to \u2013 <em>\u2018Choke\u2019 <\/em>haunts me \u2013 but for the most part that plays to the band\u2019s advantage. This is an album by a band that will proudly go wherever they want musically and leave the haters in their furious wake. It\u2019s certainly not a perfect album in any kind of technical sense. Hell, sometimes it\u2019s downright tacky. But damn, it\u2019s pretty great all the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">4\/5<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&lsquo;Die Young&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Wounds<\/strong> is available now on <strong>In At The Deep End Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><\/span><strong>Wounds<\/strong> links: <a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/woundsband\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fuckwounds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/thewoundsband\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Words by Tom Knott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wounds\u2019 latest offering is really rather good. 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