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Writer's pictureSuzy King

Album Review - The Now - Too Hot To Handle



If these guys aren't already on your radar, they need to be!


Too Hot To Handle

I love this song, it's such an epic song. I could listen to this song over and over again and it would never get boring. I can see why they picked it as the first song because the sower parts are quite hypnotising and then inbetween you have these amazing choruses where the drums and guitars come in. It's just brilliant


Devil Inside Me

This one sounds like a classic Kaiser Chiefs song and it is amazing! It makes me want to dance around the room and throw my arms around like a crazy person because the beat just takes over. I dare you all to try and sit perfectly still for this because it's just not possible!


Special Kind Of Stupid

This song really gives me realy big U2/The Killers vibes with how big and dramatic the music is. If I close my eyes I can see them playing this song in a stadium as it rings out over the crowd with it's loud guitars and banging beat.


Truth Always Comes Out In The End

This one is a little bit different to the others at the beginning but then you have Shane's beautiful rocky voice shouts out over the music, closely followed by the drums and guitar to ramp up the volume and beat to elevate the song to a whole new mood.


Live And Die

This is a very sad song, it sounds like it is a song about a girl is surrounded by people but she isn't heard or seen by anyone. She's had to change what she wants for everyone else and now she is living with that.


Get Out

This one has an instant beat that has you moving straight away. Some of the sample sounds remind me of a computer game but with a rocky twist. Awesome dancing track.


His Last Dimension

Absolutely love this song! Definitely my favourite on the album! The guitar is brilliant, it takes control over the whole song, the tone and mood is all down to the guitar and there is a face melting belter of a guitar solo. Just wow!


Wind Up

This is a brilliant duck face song, you know the kind I mean, it makes you stand up, wiggle your butt, throw your hands up in the air and pout like a duck while whipping your hair everywhere. Yeah, this is that song!


Girl You Got Me

I love the bass on this track, you can hear it all the way through driving the song. This is another one that can be played on repeat over and over again because it gets you moving and I love the lyric. "Girl, you got me, you got me sweet, you got me shaking!"


Friendly Fire

The guitar parts in this song are to frigging die for! I've been playing this one a lot in my car driving to work and it it perfect to start the day with. The whole thing has a good vibe "Cause we are the underdogs, we're gonna rise from beneath, we're gonna show them up". Yes you are lads, you are going to show them all up.


Time Is Over

This song is so beautiful, the piano and vocals are just so perfectly put together, the half way through, the drums and guitar` come in so it feels like a completely different song. Still awesome but it's been done is such a way that you don't realise it's coming and you are just sat there thinking, "where did that come from?"


The album is out now so get over to Spotify to check it out!!


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