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| The Fray // Scars & Stories |
Now the first thing I wanna say about this album is that I'm glad The Fray are also big Fall Out Boy fans. Because The Fray too seem to only do it for the scars and stories, not the fame.
Now that I've got that out of the way, here's my thing with The Fray. I think when they're brilliant, they're really brilliant. But. They never seem to be brilliant enough. I'm not a fan of any of their albums all the way through. But their singles and some album tracks here and there are brilliant. Enough so for me to often overlook what isn't brilliant and just coast on "The Fray are great". But this album here, Scars & Stories, has like, four good songs.
Heartbeat is very nice. Probably the best rocky song in their discography. It's got this beautiful driving beat in the verses and a chorus that pours over you like rain. The Wind is similarly brilliant. Very lavish orchestral swells in the background of the verses and those post-chorus ooo's are make my heart feel very nice (as do all of this band's woa-ohs etc).
1961 is also a nice piano rock song. Really it's this band's slower songs that do it the most for me. When they're not trying to be too rocky. Just when they really go hard on those melodies and soft feels and the beautiful lyrics old mate writes; that's when they really nail things. And Munich. Man the chorus on this song is huge and that build to the end of the song with that last chorus into the end where everything pares back is just phenomenal. Again though it's still a soft song. This band write brilliant soft rock and slightly alt rock songs and when they stray too far from that it just loses me.
Listen to their singles, maybe even the greatest hits, but yeah albums aren't The Fray's strong suit (at least in my opinion).
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