{"id":4858,"date":"2016-08-25T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-columbus-spring-forever\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T23:29:58","slug":"album-review-columbus-spring-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-columbus-spring-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Columbus – Spring Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look at the combination of where Columbus<\/b> are from plus the label they’re signed to and a clear picture forms of what they might sound like. Seeing as they hail from Australia and are signed to UNFD, it would be logical to assume that they’re another breakdown-happy metalcore band.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, ‘Spring Forever’<\/i> is the most pleasant of surprises. Columbus<\/b> actually sound more in line with bands like Polar Bear Club, co-opting that very American style of punk while injecting in a bit of emo pathos. The result is an album that’s as rousing and emotionally charged as it is infectious, a more piss-and-vinegar take on the traditional pop-punk formula that’s an undeniably fantastic listen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tracks like ‘Daffodil’<\/i> and ‘Broken Glass’<\/i> typify what make this album great, namely guitars with a bit more gristle, hugely raw vocals and a real surging feel that a lot of pop-punk bands seem to have abandoned. It’s not an album short on emotion either – ‘Stay’<\/i> has an intensity akin to early-2000s post-hardcore bands, while ‘Nervous Wreck’<\/i> sits at the complete other end of the spectrum, a softly-sung acoustic number that retains all the emotional payoff that is in this album’s most powerful moments, and ‘Absent’<\/i> could easily be a Wonder Years song, both in sound and quality.<\/p>\n

‘Spring Forever’<\/i> really stands as a curveball of an album, not just for their sound but the fact that Columbus<\/b> as a band are still virtually unknown, yet have come roaring out of the traps with an album as outstanding as this. Definitely a band to pay attention to.<\/p>\n

4\/5<\/p>\n

‘Spring Forever’<\/em> by Columbus<\/strong> is released on 26th August on UNFD<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Columbus<\/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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