Reviewed! Lostprophets - Weapons
Lostprophets
Weapons
Fearless
For the most part Weapons is a record you’d expect
from Lostprophets; not exactly safe, but more familiar if anything. By this
point in their career, 15 years and five albums, it’s clear this band is very comfortable
in their own skin, and are adept at playing to their strengths like putting to
wax, a record in Weapons comprised of
a heaping helping of pristine radio ready rock tunes brimming with huge
choruses and anthemic vocals that make it near impossible to not sing-a-long,
cuts here served up in spades (“Another Shot,” “Jesus Walks,” “A Little Reminder
That I’ll Never Forget”). Weapons is all killer, no filler (thanks Sum
41), well very little filler, a record that doesn’t really slow from the glossy,
hard-hitting opening tandem of “Bring Em’ Down” and “We Bring An Arsenal,” a
pair of potential impact hits that set the table for what is to come deeper
into Weapons, an album that features no shortage of potential singles
(“A Song From Where I’m From,” “Better Off Dead”), the former of which sounds
like the next “Rooftops.” Weapons sounds more akin to Start Something
than Liberation Transmission and if you’re of the group that wrote this
band off thanks in large part to a lackluster album in the form of the
Betrayed it’s about time to get back on the bandwagon because Weapons
proves Lostprophets is back and better than ever. Hurry up though, cause
there’s only so much room on the bandwagon.
Grade: A-
Go Download: “Jesus Walks”
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