I didn't know what to expect from this album. For me Funeral for a Friend is a band with mediocre albums but with a few excellents songs. The The Young and Defenceless E.P. is their more solid and well composed efford to date and created great expectations for the new album. On the other hand, the first single, Front Row Seats to the End of the World was easily one of the worst songs I've heard during the last 10 years.
Anyway, what I hate more than bad songs, are songs that enter with great melodies and riffs but get ruined by ridiculous emo/cheesy vocal lines and choruses. And Welcome Home Armageddon! is full of this kind of songs. Spinning Over the Island is a good example: a cool intro, cool riffs and a cool bridge until the really annoying, typical FFAF, chorus destroys the whole song.
I really don't get it... they can compose songs like Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don’t, they throw out cool songs from the E.P. like Serpents In Solitude and Vultures, and they fill the record with bubblegums like Old Hymns and Medicated.
Welcome Home Armageddon! was their last chance for greater things and they kicked it away. A clever artwork and 3 good songs don't make a record worth buying. So until the next time...
1. This Side of Brightness: 3/10
2. Old Hymns : 3/10
3. Front Row Seats to the End of the World: 1/10
4. Sixteen: 4/10
5. Aftertaste: 7/10
6. Spinning Over the Island: 3/10
7. Man Alive: 6/10
8. Owls (Are Watching): 5/10
9. Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don’t: 9/10
10. Medicated: 4/10
11. Broken Foundation: 8/10
12. Welcome Home Armageddon: 4/10
Overal: 4,75/10 - 2.5 stars
(Originally written by emperorsakis for rateyourmusic.com)
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