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Single Review: Funeral For a Friend – Rules And Games (Join Us Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 23 March 2009
Oh my. Every teen’s favourite Welsh emo sorts are back. And who could ignore a band with such loud pop metal (petal?) aspirations. Well, the lucky. And the smart. And the deaf. I wish I was at least one of those. ‘Rules And Games’ follows all the rules of their unfortunate genre. Thrashing guitar forces out a verse of such banality that the sudden uplift of the standard pop chorus seems up there with the primal joy of the refrain from ‘Hey Jude’. It isn’t, of course. Its vibrant burst is a simple ploy to expand a fan scene beyond tedious metal heads, yet doesn’t save a song mired in uniformity, with market meaning more than, well, meaning. Funeral For A Friend are the shading in a venn diagram of mediocre metal and The Jonas Brothers. This will never be a good thing. TM
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