We'll Live And Die In These Towns - The Enemy

One of the best albums of the year if not the decade from the boys from Coventry. A great Rock n Roll album with beautifully crafted tracks and instrumentals. From beginning to end this album will keep you interested time and time again, from the popularised Away From Here and Had enough to the relatively unknown 40 days and 40 nights the album is perfection. The use of the instruments and harsh voice of vocalist Tom Clarke is great, the drummer plays his role perfectly especially considering he only looks about 12. The whole album is based on the bands experiences growing up in Coventry with dead end jobs and their lives going nowhere until they ...  Read the complete review

Very good debut album from a promising new Brittish band. Every song on this album offers the listener something different and encompasses the music style of a generation. The album title track, number 5, is one of the best songs ive heard in a some time. The chorus has an uncontrollable "catchyness" to it and displays the creative genius which is shown throughout the album. The previously released songs; "Away From Here" & "Had Enough" show an insight to what this album is about and all other songs on the album are just as good as the released songs. A masterpiece of a first album and a definate must have for any indie rock or just ...  Read the complete review

The Enemy are an Indie Rock band from Coventry and can be seen to have had it very, very easy. They formed in 2006, and after playing a mere 10 gigs the band sought the help of 'Grand Union Management', the people that had helped Boy Kill Boy to success the previous year. They were soon the opening act at Coventry's Godiva Festival, and shortly after this they became the first signing on Stiff Records for twenty years, a subsidiary label of Warner Records. This album was released through Warner in July 2007, and hit Number 1 in the album charts; a great achievement for the band. They are loved by the NME, hated by XFM's breakfast show presenter Alex Zane due to ...  Read the complete review

One has to wonder exactly when the current crop of big Indie-Rock bands is going to come to an end, or at least fade from public adulation. When you consider this whole 'Garage Rock Revival', as it was described at the time The Strokes kicked it off in 2001, has been going the better half of a decade now, it can only be a matter of time before dance music or rap begins to hog the commercial limelight once again. Now, as a fan of rock, and having a bit of a sweet tooth for certain indie acts, you may wonder exactly why I sound so eager for this to happen. The answer being I've just endured the Number 1 album from the latest Indie act to steal the crown of 'Next ...  Read the complete review

They where exactly what was needed, amid the cheesy indie music of Scouting for Girls, The Hoosiers, The Pigeon Detectives we needed someone to come along and give it all a quick up the backside. The Enemy where this, gritty, determined, loud and abrasive. We live and die in these towns went straight to number 1 on its opening week (July 2007), it sold around 300,000 in it's first year. Heres the low-down. Aggro; A good opener. They have went down the route of having a loud song to open the album which many a indie rock band do. There is a cracking chorus in this song..."ahhhh said my streets on fire", very sing along ...  Read the complete review