Fenrir, an alternate Rock band from Suffolk,
who were formed at the tail end of last year, and have spent the last six
months recording ‘Live like Royalty’ at
Hidden Track Studios in Folkestone
with producer Oliver Craggs, who
worked previously with Feed The Rhino.
The quintet have been touring constantly under the influence of their various
heroes, such as Deaf Havana, Maroon 5,
Paramore, Patrick Stump and Foo
Fighters.
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The EP shoots into action with the punchy
and rhythmic ‘Haven’t You Heart It Yet?’,
which is made up of strong vocals from frontman Ben Slater and an obvious tight musical connection between the
members. In fact, the instrumental, tender breakdown towards the end of the
track mirrors the likes of a You Me At
Six ballad, which sadly begs the question of how unique Fenrir actually are.
‘It's Not Quite the End of The World (But You Can See It From Here)’; is not only a horrendously long song
title, but also the most unapologetic twin of a well-known Lostprophets song. But it is now where near as big as the Welsh
Rock heavyweights achieved. Fenrir
come across as so caught up in their influences, that they forget to pin-point
their own style at all. This track is nothing more than a gang-vocal heavy
blend of Foo Fighters’ and Lostprophets’ finest moments.
Unfortunately, this trend fails to
deteriorate in penultimate track ‘The
Puppeteer’, which despite its use of various effective musical elements,
such as a wide-range of vocal techniques, assorted melodies and volume changes,
is just another replica of some great Paramore
and The Blackout tracks. Fenrir clearly know their inspirations
by heart, but the lack of personal or honest emotion in their compositions come
across stronger than the respectable features nabbed from the brilliance of
their muses.
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The fact that final track ‘Click’ follows in the limp footsteps of
the other tracks of ‘Live like Royalty’
is no surprise. But what is surprising is the fact that Fenrir clearly have a vast array of musical gifts between them, but
banish those talents by failing to be rare in any way.
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