{"id":4846,"date":"2016-08-31T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-brave-vultures-im-not-coming-back\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:29:57","slug":"album-review-brave-vultures-im-not-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-brave-vultures-im-not-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Brave Vultures –\u00a0I’m Not Coming Back If You’re Not Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The biggest challenge for any new band is getting noticed, that first moment of infiltrating the public consciousness that may or may not lead to a widespread career. This is done in various different ways, most typically the advent of well-written affecting songs, or a gimmick to get noticed for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

And then there are some bands that have neither of these. Enter Colchester’s Brave Vultures<\/b> and their debut EP ‘I’m Not Coming Back If You’re Not Here’<\/i>, five tracks of melodic, singalong-friendly alt-rock that has absolutely zero originality or unique personality whatsoever. They largely feel like truncated versions of potentially good songs, smoothened and buffed and something fit for consumption rather than a true, honest artistic statement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s not even that these songs are bad, though. They’re pleasant enough, well-written with some nice melodies, but they’re so utterly faceless that they could be by virtually any third-tier Brit-rock band going. The worst culprit is the white bread vacuum of ‘Safe Ground’<\/i>, a track whose grand ambitions just end up feeling sickly and mawkish in the extreme.<\/p>\n

By comparison, some tracks such as ‘Don’t Let Me Down’<\/i> have a bit more life to them are at least tolerable, but they feel so bland that any notable features dissipate on impact. Brave Vultures<\/b> aren’t a bad band, and can write with some great melodic nuance. They just don’t seem to have quite grasped that a memorable instrumental is a factor as well.<\/p>\n

2.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘I’m Not Coming Back If You’re Not Here’<\/em> by Brave Vultures<\/strong> is released on September 16th.<\/p>\n

Brave Vultures<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Luke Nuttall (@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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