Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours (Review: MattJ)

Like Roshan I was pretty sceptical about Fightstar seeing as its Charlie-from-Busted's band - something I'm sure they will never escape from. Post-Hardcore has never been a genre I've really enjoyed, it's all samey in my eyes and I was happy with Hardcore before it became Post-Hardcore, I never thought they should try to do anything more with it but that's just how music works I suppose.

Well it started out how I expected it to start, One Day Son has an alright riff with some alright vocals to suit the alright production. I don't hate it, well I do hate it but I don't hate it because I hate the music I hate it because I think everything about it is just average. It's not exciting me enough. The second song has a bit more of an up beat tone to it, and the fact that I noticed it is a good thing, so this song is a little bit more alright than the first one. Despite the more upbeat sounding riff the song follows the same structure as the last song which I found annoying, and a little bit insulting I might add.

Another thing about this band, I don't really think that Charlie is really a particularly good singer, I mean his average voice suits many of their average bog standard post-hardcore songs but on One Last Common Ancestor they do a bit more of a mellow song and Charlie sounds terrible on it, the same goes for the song 99. This is quite the opposite to his shouting on Deathcar which I think was very good, I'd like to see Mr. Simpson in a death metal in the near future. I wouldn't really.

Anyway Deathcar is quite a good song indeed and I would liked to have seen some more agressive stuff on the album really. I don't think it would be fair to give this album a really low score because its not that bad, its just not anything new. I really do dislike this but its not for the actual music, its, again, because of the averageness of the whole thing. Therefore I'm going to give them 2.25/5

As an aside I'm in a bit of a bad mood, I hope it didn't show in the reivew....