hmv review of wonderland
McFly are the pop ambassadors you can be proud of. With an astonishing run of Number Ones, awards and sold-out arena dates under their low-riding belt they’re one of the few pop success stories of the last few years. It’s not hard to hear why on their new album ‘Wonderland’, which stakes out new ground with the band’s evolving sound, drawing classic references from The Beatles, The Who and 10CC to craft a thoroughly modern pop classic.
From the opening bars of ‘I’ll Be OK’, which forms the perfect bridge from their debut ‘Room On The Third Floor’, with its deliciously hook-laden melodies, to the big pop tune of ‘Ultraviolet’ and the all-guns-blazing hard-rocking ‘I Wanna Hold You’, ‘Wonderland’ is an album that packs a punch with choruses bigger than Planet Earth, and more zest and spunk than any band around right now. The development of McFly’s artistry is further explored on tracks like ‘Too Close For Comfort’, a tale of the messy disintegration of a stalled relationship with a blindingly poignant musical backdrop, on the epic ‘She Falls Asleep’, with its grand orchestration, and on album closer ‘Memory Lane’, which clocks in at almost five minutes of storming, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll tunesmithery.
With ‘Wonderland’, McFly exhibit the growth and maturity that many bands dare not explore so early on in their careers. Complimented by lush orchestration, killer melodies and finely crafted lyricism, ‘Wonderland’ shows no sign of “the difficult second album syndrome”, but signposts a very bright future for the talented McFly.
GOD THEYRE SO AMAZING I CANT WAIIIIITTTTTtttttt
From the opening bars of ‘I’ll Be OK’, which forms the perfect bridge from their debut ‘Room On The Third Floor’, with its deliciously hook-laden melodies, to the big pop tune of ‘Ultraviolet’ and the all-guns-blazing hard-rocking ‘I Wanna Hold You’, ‘Wonderland’ is an album that packs a punch with choruses bigger than Planet Earth, and more zest and spunk than any band around right now. The development of McFly’s artistry is further explored on tracks like ‘Too Close For Comfort’, a tale of the messy disintegration of a stalled relationship with a blindingly poignant musical backdrop, on the epic ‘She Falls Asleep’, with its grand orchestration, and on album closer ‘Memory Lane’, which clocks in at almost five minutes of storming, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll tunesmithery.
With ‘Wonderland’, McFly exhibit the growth and maturity that many bands dare not explore so early on in their careers. Complimented by lush orchestration, killer melodies and finely crafted lyricism, ‘Wonderland’ shows no sign of “the difficult second album syndrome”, but signposts a very bright future for the talented McFly.
GOD THEYRE SO AMAZING I CANT WAIIIIITTTTTtttttt