Britpop exclamation mark!

It was truly not an ideal lead time for Rifles and their second album. Only one threw the complete recordings away because they were not satisfied, then radioed nor the record company and in between shifts the release again. The promo runs solala. Singles are announced to be canceled again a little later, the album title is changed and who knows what else. Now the beginning of 2009 Pavement Diaries "there, just that it ends up Great Escape" is.

Conceivable bad requirements, especially as the need to maintain Rifles to not respond as one of many of these UK-hype-bands of the last years in the history. There are two and a half year waiting period after the debut already a fucking eternity. But at the same time to give the all-clear: Great Escape "has become an excellent album that does have to contend with some weaknesses that the phenomenal predecessor No Love Lost" had not, but hey ... we whine here, after all, a very high level , And already the opener Science In Violence "makes with full force clear why the Rifles in 2009 belong to the leading front of British guitar bands. The whole album makes this clear! The extraordinary sense of the band for catchy melodies and harmonies is them not lost in the meantime come. But it is not only the form of this wonderful pop songs, but also the content, which makes it so important this band. The Rifles are very style of bands like The Jam and tell in their songs stories and truths about life. Although this is typically British but somehow typical universally understood. Whether the desire of breaking (The Great Escape "), the drabness of the gray everyday life (toerag"), love (Winter Calls ") or the sum up about the past (Out In The Past ") ... the lyrics of singer Joel Stoker are wonderful, just because he tells in his Schnottrigkeit, but always has feeling in his voice. And: No, it is not followed by Weller Comparison!

The songs themselves go the way to go, most new bands with their second album: The music is consistent, well thought-out and complicated. Say: Even at Great Escape "succumb to the Rifles the Temptation of slight producing Here keyboards and strings appear at Great Escape." Equally little disturbing, such as the Wind Ensemble at The General "But sometimes it works for a little too much of a good thing, especially since Stoker's voice. is struggling especially with the latter. Otherwise, the majority of the songs but again on extreme Hit-level. Whether jagged (Science In Violence "Fall To Sorrow"), melodic (History "Winter Calls") or even acoustically (" For The Meantime ") ... the Rifles mastered a wide repertoire Britpop. The biggest problem of this album and its songs will end up ironically No Love Lost", the 2006 debut. This was just too perfect! 12 Super Hits, to the point, just the right balance between punk and pop and at a time when everything was really fresh musically. Whether they want it or not ... because the band will certainly have to always measure. Great Escape "pass this test but, despite minor errors in the usual sovereignty. The Rifles were and still are a big exclamation mark in Britpop! Songs full of energy and melody with wonderful texts from real life. This band has something to say and will have heard be! Then the savvy sure even more people. And until then, you should think about changing the record company.