For me, Kids In Glass Houses’ new album, Dirt was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half of 2010, so the day it landed on my desk, it found itself having three plays in the first day. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that it’s good then.
I could just end the review there, because nothing I write is going to give this record the recognition it rightfully deserves, the only way we can do that is to make sure people go out, but it and send the boys to Number One, rather than just downloading it for free from some dodgy internet site.
Ever since I heard KIGH belting out Sunshine when they were supporting New Found Glory in some dingy club in Manchester, I knew I was going to love this album, and whilst Sunshine is still my favourite song from the album, there are still some awesome tracks on there.
Matters At All has obviously had huge coverage on Radio One, and probably helps the guys in their bid for mainstream dominance, alongside the likes of The Blackout and Lostprophets who are lucky enough to have rockstar lover Fearne Cotton championing them.
Aside from the lead single, tracks such as ‘Let It Out’, ‘Lilli Rose’ and ‘Morning Afterlife’ are particularly standout tracks for me, each bringing something completely different to the KIGH party, from the chanting, upbeat vocals of ‘Let It Out‘, the beautiful construction of ‘Lilli Rose’ and the brilliantly moving ‘Morning Afterlife’ which really shows off Aled Philips’ voice exceptionally well.
For obvious reasons, ‘Undercover Lover’ is another track well worth checking out, mainly because the boys got Frankie Sandford of the Saturdays in on the action, getting her to provide (pretty impressive) backing vocals. When I first heard about this collaboration, I must admit, I was rather dubious, but it’s going to do their marketability no end of good as the scores of Saturdays fans will now check out KIGH. So kudos to whoever set that up.
Overall, each track on this album brings something out of this world to this 13-track record, and it see’s another rock band establishing themselves amongst the greatest albums of 2010.
5/5 - well worth checking out.
FemaleFirst - Ruth Harrison
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