Solid tunes.
Brit five piece, Headway are from Nottingham but have a curiously American feel; curiously, because their sound is an interesting mix of classic British indie pop-rock a la Feeder but with a mannered American accent from the vocalist and a slightly old school emo edge, overall they reminded me of The Get Up Kids after they’d lost their youthful, angsty edge.
Of the five tunes here, ‘The Start’ is pleasant and catchy pop rock • not massively memorable but pretty good; ‘Safety’ is the best track, a sing along anthem with a quiet/loud backbone and an open, fuzzy sound; ‘Always the Same’ is the most pop of the tunes, very Keane with its keyboard sections but with a sturdy backing of guitar riffs; ‘Sing Our Hearts Out’ is back to anthemic, and is full of crescendos of guitar and drums and ‘Finish What We Started’ is the heaviest, a decent catchy riff sweeps you in and the insistent beat makes you want to dance. This is a slick EP of good solid melodic pop-rock tunes, they’re all quite safe and middle of the road in a Snow Patrol/Keane/Coldplay kind of way, but done with confidence and plenty of style.