Rating?: ✮✮✮✮
Band?: Circa Waves
Members?: Kieran Shudall, Joe Flaconer, Sam Rourke and Colin Jones.
Release date?: 30th March, 2015
Genre?: Indie/Rock
Members?: Kieran Shudall, Joe Flaconer, Sam Rourke and Colin Jones.
Release date?: 30th March, 2015
Genre?: Indie/Rock
The highly anticipated debut album from the Liverpudlian indie-rockers Circa Waves- Young Chasers- was released earlier this year to the delight of their dedicated fans.
The record is jam packed full of catchy hooks and memorable lyrics just waiting to be screamed by a festival crowd. There are thirteen songs in total, some of which are old classics such as their first single, 'Fossils' and some are new such as, 'My Love' and 'Best Years'. They have managed to capture an essence of nostalgia, producing a sound that will take you back to being seventeen again enjoying city life in the sun, with a few splashes of 'The Kooks', 'The Libertines' and 'The Strokes' thrown in for good measure. Many people have already began to compare the boys to The Beatles which is understandable, not only because they are a 4-piece from Liverpool, but also because their songs are refreshing in the now-a-days pop heavy music scene.
The band consists of frontman Kieran Shudall, guitarist Joe Falconer, bassist Sam Rourke and drummer Colin Jones who all met at University. Like The Beatles, the original drummer, Sian Plummer, left the band just before they reached any success. The album reveals the vulnerability of being young, from crowd surfing to missing your Mum. After meeting the boys at their Liverpool gig in April, you could really tell how humbled and shocked they were by the success of their music, and I predict that there will be a lot more to come. This album was definitely intended to be listened to loudly in the sun, and despite their somewhat conventional sound I am definitely a fan of theirs and if that makes me a 'filthy scavenger of the indie landfill' (which is how the NME describes their fans) then so be it.
The record is jam packed full of catchy hooks and memorable lyrics just waiting to be screamed by a festival crowd. There are thirteen songs in total, some of which are old classics such as their first single, 'Fossils' and some are new such as, 'My Love' and 'Best Years'. They have managed to capture an essence of nostalgia, producing a sound that will take you back to being seventeen again enjoying city life in the sun, with a few splashes of 'The Kooks', 'The Libertines' and 'The Strokes' thrown in for good measure. Many people have already began to compare the boys to The Beatles which is understandable, not only because they are a 4-piece from Liverpool, but also because their songs are refreshing in the now-a-days pop heavy music scene.
The band consists of frontman Kieran Shudall, guitarist Joe Falconer, bassist Sam Rourke and drummer Colin Jones who all met at University. Like The Beatles, the original drummer, Sian Plummer, left the band just before they reached any success. The album reveals the vulnerability of being young, from crowd surfing to missing your Mum. After meeting the boys at their Liverpool gig in April, you could really tell how humbled and shocked they were by the success of their music, and I predict that there will be a lot more to come. This album was definitely intended to be listened to loudly in the sun, and despite their somewhat conventional sound I am definitely a fan of theirs and if that makes me a 'filthy scavenger of the indie landfill' (which is how the NME describes their fans) then so be it.
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