‘I’m so sick of singing about hate’ cries Frank Carter, former front man of my favourite band ever. With that in mind, you can imagine how bitterly disappointed I was when Frank left Gallows. Fortunately though, Wade McNeil managed a superb job on the last Gallows album.
So, with that sightly awkward bit out of the way, ‘Anthems‘ is the first release from Carter’s new band, Pure Love. A fairly self-indulgent album title in my mind, especially given that there are only really 2 songs on here that you could consider as being actual anthems. Those songs are ‘Handsome Devils Club‘ and ‘Riot Song‘, other than these two though, this is a completely unoriginal album from a man that once produced genre defining classics with his old band.
It sounds as though they’ve just bought a Gaslight Anthem record, and said ‘Shall we have a pop at this? Maybe we could throw a Darkness riff or two in there as well‘. Perhaps Frank Carter wasn’t the genius he was touted to be after all. This album just screams many reasons at you as to why Frank Carter should never have left Gallows.
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