By now, everyone should be familiar with the story of lostprophets and their pedophiliac lead singer. Anyway, after his indiscretions were made public, the band broke up and the other five members have now regrouped as No Devotion with former Thursday singer Geoff Rickly. What they have formed sounds nothing like their previous bands. Coming across as a combination of Joy Division and \u201880s New Wave, they have come out of the gate determined to leave their pasts behind.<\/p>\n
First single \u201cStay,\u201d which was released in 2014 to properly introduce the band, is one of the best pop songs in a hell of a long time. Not since \u201cSomebody That I Used to Know\u201d has there been a song this catchy and powerful. The second single \u201c10,000 Summers\u201d is the type of song that goes above and beyond to prove what this band is truly capable of. They\u2019ve proven that they have moved beyond the pop-punk of lostprophets and emo of Thursday.<\/p>\n
Geoff Rickly\u2019s vocals on the opening track \u201cBreak\u201d are very distinctive and help keep the song alive, alert and full of energy. The most striking track here, however, is \u201cWhy Can\u2019t I Be With You,\u201d which is completely dynamic as opposed to some of the other tracks present here. It goes without saying that fans of both lostprophets and Thursday might end up being disappointed by the electronic-driven results on this disc, but fans who already love this type of music will be driven towards something new.<\/p>\n
All in all, it\u2019s great to see the members of lostprophets picking themselves up from the desperation that their despicable singer put them in and trying again. Songs like \u201cAddition\u201d are great, but overall, the album as a whole is just okay. An okay experience that could\u2019ve been a lot better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9723],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-44285","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-no-devotion","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44285"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}