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Each spring I am
able to find a new and better way to blow off final exams and this year was no different.
There was a weekend trip to Georgia, throwing things into a ceiling fan and looking for
new music on the internet. Upon watching videos on LAUNCH.com, I found a really cool
song. This prompted me to buy the CD. The band goes by the name
Lostprophets.
Lostprophets is a six-piece band from Wales (that’s located
in Great Britain). A six-piece band is pretty impressive in this era of music. The band
is almost like an eight-piece bucket from KFC with only two pieces missing. However,
with this many members, the group works together nicely and Start Something is a
fantastic album.
Start Something has a sound similar to
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. by Incubus. The album is fairly heavy with some awesome orchestral
parts mixed into every track and interludes that connect many of the songs. The music
basically runs non-stop from beginning to end, much like a Pink Floyd
album.
The first single from this group, “Last Train Home,” is the song
that caught my attention. And it’s a good thing it did, because there is not a
disappointing track on this CD. It keeps rocking throughout. “We Still Kill the Old
Way” is a great piece to begin the album with. Distorted guitar and some heavy drumming
really helps get the lead out. “Burn, Burn” is a song about The Man holding the youth of
the world down. “Last Summer” begins with a sound similar to the Police and drives
through with a heavy bass drum beat. The song describes any young person’s summer before
heading back to school in the fall.
This CD is dynamite. The time of
this writing is one of the only times the disc has left my car in the past two months.
Lostprophets has found a sound unlike any other band. The mix of new wave, metal and
punk make Start Something one of the best rock discs so far in 2004.
