Spector Album Review

I have dedicated this week to listening to the albums I'd bought but never got the chance to look at. One of those albums was Spector's debut album "Enjoy It While It Lasts" which as debut albums go, is a nice album.

Spector are form London and is made up of Fred Macpherson on vocals (former vocalist for Les Incompétents and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man), Christopher Burman on guitar, Thomas Shickle on bass, Jed Cullen on synths and guitar and Danny Blandy on drums. The band formed last year and have been causing a tir ever since.

I will start off by saying, the album is very good for a first go. The thing I like about the album is they are not trying to be anybody new and they are not trying to be something they're not. Nowadays, there are loads of bands who are completely up their own arses about their music and think it's the answer to everybody's problems but Spector are very happy to just go with it. They know for a fact that what they have as a sound isn't any thing new and don't really care, with synths taken straight for the Killers, vocal styles taken straight from the Vaccines and catchy choruses taken from the Wombats. 

Everything about the album screams to me 80s. In my notes, I don't think I went through a single song without thinking that I was back in the days of cool synths and moody song writing. The slower songs are very haunting and the core message of the song does really stay in your head.

Each song has a nice structure to it, if there is one thing this band is good at, it's writing middle 8s. At the start of most of the songs you get a gentle introduction into the song and then they will smack you in the face with a nice big fat chorus that sticks in your head all day and then in the middle they will tone it down into a nice instrumental before building it all back up again. 

The album as a whole has a nice poppy feel to it. This isn't not album for those who want guitars galore, this the album for someone who like to be upbeat and have a good time. If I had to give a negative, I'd say it lacks variety, every song seems to be a bit samey but all in all, a good album and a good band.

8/10

Recommended tracks: Lay Low, No Adventure.

Listen to if you like: The Wombats, The Vaccines, The Killers

To listen to their music, here is a link to their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/spector?feature=results_main