With the release of their forth record, Young The Giant has attempted to return to a more familiar sound. After the dance pop sidestep of Home Of The Strange<\/i>, they\u2019ve returned to more of a traditional sound. Even though they\u2019re still caught in the gears of Fueled By Ramen, they have been trying to establish their own identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cCall Me Back\u201d is a stripped back song that doesn\u2019t really do much to showcase the band\u2019s overall, complete talent. It\u2019s a good little number but it doesn\u2019t do anything other than just leaving the listener scratching their heads a bit. \u201cSuperposition\u201d is more of a great YTG song, better than any we\u2019ve heard on the last record. Actually, it\u2019s one of the best songs I\u2019ve heard this year, very laidback and very chill, and still better than anything Weezer has put out lately. The album\u2019s main single \u201cSimplify\u201d is more of a straight-ahead pop song, but it still works and is good enough of a track to justify having it here.<\/p>\n
One can say that the band has changed their sound too much since their first record that everyone loved. Many diminishing returns later, the band has almost gotten stuck in the wheels of success that made Paramore, 21 Pilots, and Panic! At The Disco so huge. YTG hasn\u2019t been as successful, so they\u2019re trying whatever they can to maybe achieve the same success with less than spectacular results. <\/p>\n
The cursing on \u201cOblivion\u201d seems obligatory at this point, but it doesn\u2019t work for a band like this and makes them look messy and ill-timed. The song is not that great and feels very flat and boring. \u201cYou + I\u201d is a quirky little pop song, but it works and is definitely one of the best songs found here. \u201cTightrope\u201d is a damn full on dance song that is worth skipping and not paying attention to. <\/p>\n
While there are some better songs here than any that were found on the last record, it\u2019s a complete shame that Young The Giant has disappeared from their rock sound that worked so well for them the first time around. I know a band needs to change, expand, and grow but sometimes they should just stay in the style that works for them. This record is better than the last, but I was looking for a full-on return to form. Maybe next time, things will truly get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8673],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-45443","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-young-the-giant","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45443","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=45443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45443"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}