This is the bands third album, and sees the UK Skate Punk veterans stepping up their game once again. With every album this band just seems to get better and better and over the years have matured immensely as musicians. They have seemingly on this full length spent much more time on the lyrics than they have on previous efforts as they are much meaningful, and with the newly improved vocal style it just comes out great. The band have kept their fast, hard edged skate punk yet have improved their sound so much since their last offering. The guitars sound better than ever, the drumming is immense, the bass lines boom out of the speakers, and the vocalist really seems to have found his niche.
On this album are twelve songs showing off the bands fine talent better than ever before. In the last few years this band have improved loads – it was no surprise when Golf Records picked up these guys a few years ago as they were already great, but now the band really seem to be hitting whole new levels of excellence. There are some superb stand out tracks on this album such as the ever great ‘Forty Years of Misery,’ the epic tale of life on the road ‘A Life We Choose to Live,’ and stories of alcoholism in ‘Back on the Wagon…Again.’ This band still show no signs of slowing down and there are definitely no signs of the band stagnating. 4ft Fingers still know how to rock out with the best of them and as a result this album has come out smelling of roses. Every track on this album sees the band take on some hard rocking Skate Punk and if this is your kind of music then this is definitely a band that you want to be checking out. There are few bands that rival 4ft Fingers in the Skate Punk genre – in fact at this moment I can’t actually think of a single band that do it better than they do, they really are a credit to the UK scene.
I don’t think 4ft fingers will ever be a bad band – they just seem to keep going from strength to strength and show no signs of stopping improving. Every album sees the band take on a whole new level, with a new musical stance, and a brand new vocal approach to skate punk. The band finally seem to have found what they are best at and have ironed out the flaws of previous albums, producing at last an album of true excellence. I always knew the band had it in them to do it but they just never quite seemed to fulfil their potential – they have finally done it and the end result is a blinder.
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UK based film graduate with a huge passion for music, sports and video games.
