We Are Lost Boys - 'Life' Review

We Are Lost Boys – ‘Life’ EP

Track List;
1. Don’t Care
2. From Home Sweet Home
3. Who Has To Know?
4.  T.W.O.T.W (The Way Of The World)
5. What Now
6. Old Street

 

The first track, ‘Don’t Care’, opens with some promising sounding drums swiftly followed by some grunge sounding guitar, finally the vocals come in, promisingly, the tempo increases and the song burst into the chorus, which is pretty catchy, and overall enjoyable. Coming into the second verse, the drums pick up again, and after expecting some increase in vocal intensity somewhere here, it just doesn’t happen. Back into the chorus again, which is just as enjoyable the second time around. After the second playing of the chorus, there is a section that completely ruins the song for me, singing the lyrics ‘You Don’t Care’, it’s not the lyrics that trouble me, it’s how they are sung, surely here is supposed to be the most intense and exciting part of the song, that comes just before the final chorus, instead, you get a feel that they ‘Don’t Care’ how this song lacks excitement and an overall good sound.

 

‘From Home Sweet Home’ begins almost how the first song ends. In this song, there is no chorus to make this song slightly enjoyable, I feel like a kick to the samosas would be more enjoyable than this track. The singer almost sounds like he is crying, singing lyrics ‘I’m not moving out’ and ‘I don’t wanna talk about paying rent, it’s getting old, getting boring and I told you that I can’t afford it’,  which if sung in an upbeat manor, might make a decent pop punk song, but not in this case.

 

Next up is ‘Who Has To Know?’. This track has quite a long intro, which isn’t too bad, the drumming is quite enjoyable and upbeat going well with the guitar. To be fair, I do really find the lyrics to be this songs saving grace,  and I’m sure many people will be the same. There is again a problem with what is supposed to be the most exciting piece of the song, or in heavier songs, the  breakdown, but here, it is just a few slow strums of the guitar, you would get a more creative piece of music if you gave a Banjo to a cat.

 

Fourth on this EP comes T.W.O.T.W. This again begins with a long guitar note, followed by a catchy riff, and then in jump the vocals. Once again, the singing lacks emotion and sounds lightly monotone, and like the previous 3 songs, boring. Once again though, I do not have a problem with the lyrics, it is the way they are brought to life, it’s is like having a car, but having no petrol; everything is there, but the vital thing is missing.

Track number 5 is called ‘What Now’. Which begins again with a decent intro, to be followed by gentle vocals, for the first time, I feel a tiny bit of emotion in his voice.  Vocals are brilliantly carried through most of this song by the guitar, before the drums kick in, but when this happens, the vocals are delivered in the same way as at the start of the song, much more emotion and volume is needed here to make this a ‘good’ song. Throughout the last minute of the song, the lyric ‘I Swear I’ll Try My Best’ are sung over and over, but it’s obvious he wasn’t singing about this EP. All in all, not a bad song by any means, just not enough emotion or volume to make it a ‘good’ song.

 

The final song ‘Old Street’ thankfully almost begins well! Sadly, the upbeat intro drags the song into expectation of fantastic vocals, but fails to deliver them. Once again sounding monotone, emotionless and lacking originality. Almost as if the singer cannot wait to get to the end of the song, singing like he doesn’t really care what it sounds like. Which is unfortunate, because sung differently, this song, and this EP as a whole could be very good.

In conclusion, in my opinion, this EP is lacking any emotion, originality, creativeness, structure and vocals worth listening. If this EP had being sung with more feeling and ideas, then I may have a completely different opinion, but unfortunately, this is what was presented to my ears.

Riff Rating; R

Danny