A while ago, I figured that the guys in FIDLAR would be rock\u2019s great white hope. They had a lot of attitude, energy, and punk musicianship that resulted in really great material. Well, almost four years since their sophomore record, they\u2019ve returned and the results are near disastrous. Starting things off, the hip-hop ripoff\/homage \u201cGet Off My Rock\u201d throws one for a loop. You really start to wonder what the hell were these guys thinking. I miss rock and roll, not experimentation. This band is too new to want to experiment and piss off their fanbase that grew to like them because of a previous sound.<\/p>\n
These guys used to sound really good. Since then, they\u2019ve degenerated into a wannabe band. \u201cCan\u2019t You See\u201d has an almost TV On The Radio feel to it, and not much of their previous records left here. The song isn\u2019t terrible, but under another band it would carry more gravitas. When they go with an upbeat almost Smash Mouth type beat on \u201cBy Myself,\u201d one is almost willing to turn the iPod off so they don\u2019t have to hear any more of this garbage. I absolutely hate when rock bands go for the Coachella crowd and flirt with rappers, R&B, and drum machines. \u201cFlake\u201d and \u201cToo Real\u201d are the closest things the band comes to sounding like themselves, but at this point, why would you bother. <\/p>\n
The almost lovey dovey duet of \u201cCalled You Twice\u201d with K Flay is just bad \u2013 skippable and unnecessary. \u201cToo Real\u201d is decent enough and is enough to keep the listener\u2019s attention, even through the political lyrics. If they had stuck with more like this, the whole record would\u2019ve turned out better. \u201cGood Times Are Over\u201d is a good straight-ahead rock song, something this whole record should\u2019ve been. It\u2019s only February and this is already one of the most disappointing discs of the year. <\/p>\n
FIDLAR is a band that was great but got bored with their current sound. It\u2019s cool to shift things around and do something different, but when it\u2019s not your area of expertise, there\u2019s just some things that you shouldn\u2019t try to mess with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9707],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-45544","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-fidlar","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45544","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=45544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45544"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45544"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}