American Authors has always been a great pop band. They do everything Imagine Dragons and Maroon 5 shouldn\u2019t do. But as a result, they aren\u2019t as popular. The hallmarks of this band are upbeat, positive songs, unique musicianship, and an ability to actually have something to say, While they try some different things on their third disc, those qualities are still prevalent. \u201cStay Around\u201d has an Imagine Dragons feel to it, but better. The music and the vocals are more upbeat, like they\u2019re actually trying. It\u2019s not a bad song, but it is not in the same field as their upbeat, feel-good pop songs<\/p>\n
\u201cSay Amen\u201d has a hollow feel to it, like they\u2019re trying to recapture their old glory, or perhaps trying to hitch their wagons to the Panic! At The Disco and Imagine Dragons juggernauts. This one isn\u2019t their best and is kind of a weak track. \u201cI Wanna Go Out\u201d would be great as a Maroon 5 track circa 2012. American Authors is a band that\u2019s good at upbeat, almost full of Christian positivity songs, but moments like this just fall flat. <\/p>\n
\u201cDeep Water\u201d has a gospel feel to it and isn\u2019t bad, but it just feels like the band is capable of better material. \u201cCan\u2019t Stop Me Now\u201d is the kind of Queen-like throat tearing, heart wrenching anthem we\u2019re hearing a lot of now. It\u2019s not bad because I happen to like this band, but it\u2019s been done before to death. Still, it\u2019s better than anything Adam Levine has come up with lately.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore I Go\u201d is a nice downbeat ballad about making sure you live life to the fullest, which is a good statement and not too overwrought musically. It\u2019s definitely the best track this album has to offer. <\/p>\n
While American Authors isn\u2019t going to be heard on the radio like they used to, there\u2019s still some good stuff to be heard here. So if you\u2019re tired of being brainwashed by the Chainsmokers, Imagine Dragons, and Maroon 5, check these guys out and feel good again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10318],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-45541","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-american-authors","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45541","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=45541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45541"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}