Fingers Up (Hang-ups - Goldfinger)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Hang-ups - Goldfinger
Date:	10/06/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Excellent musical influences

Disadvantages: Some weak tracks

The King Blues are a favourite band of mine because of the wide range of influences they have in their music and in particular some punk, reggae and ska influences all mashed together and another band I like, Goldfinger use a similar style in their music as you can detect both the punk and ska influences in this innovative bands music.

Track List

1 Superman
2 My Head
3 If Only
4 This Lonely Place
5 20 Cent Goodbye
6 Question
7 Disorder
8 Carlita
9 Too Late
10 I Need To Know
11 Authority
12 S.M.P.
13 The Last Time
14 Chris Cayton

This is a pretty good album although in my opinion it does not quite have the consistency of quality of tracks that their debut album had and at times it feels like they have had to pack in a few fillers to pad the album out a bit.

One of the other slight problems is that it was widely recognised and something I agree with that the best track on the album was the opening track Superman and after this none of the others quite lived up to its standard.

It is an up tempo track with some lively lyrics with a heavy ska beat to it. Later tracks deliver a more raw and basic punk influence and some of the stand out tracks include is Carlita and I also like Authority. There is some good variety to the album with My Head recovering from a slow start to really blast out the vocals in a sharp and well delivered way.

This is definately an album worth checking out and it has some rather good tracks on it, it is just a shame that the quality is not maintained through out the albums entirety.

Summary: Ska punk influenced album