Tonight is Goodbye • Castles
This is a band highly tipped for big things. Not only does Tonight Is Goodbye put together a wildly creative album full of great tracks, but also their live performances enhance their abilities even more.
Since forming three years ago, the band has toured with similar acts such as You Me At Six, Kids In Glass Houses and more recently Enjoy Destroy. ‘Castles’ is the bands second release consisting of even more energy driven, powerfully ambitious and memorable tracks. The six tracks included on this release are pure indie pop rock, which is always going to get teen girls screaming loud and proud.
‘Brain’ is the perfect opener of a track. It sums up what the entire band are all about. A catchy song riddled with pounding riffs and precise vocals. Like many of the tracks present on this CD, it has a way of sinking into the soul a touching anyone listening to it. There was one particular lines that really got this reviewer thinking - “All the boys and all the girls like to play this stupid game, which messes with your brain.” This is a like that many people can relate to making the bands lyrics incredibly personal to which many people can relate to at some point in their lives.
The remainder five tracks pretty much follow suit. ‘Lucky Boy’ opens with a crashing start, yet with the pounding drums and a reserved beginning, explodes with great intensity as it develops. Then there is the catchy ‘Noughts and Crosses’, which seems to have an obsession with Disney flicks, beauty and the beast and Cinderella and what not. The electric riff sets the track on fire so in this regard praise is given to Casey Roatry and Callum Hawes.
Other delicious tracks include ‘Nobody Cares’, which has a rolling drum introduction keeping the track going though its entirety and an elevated beat setting an instrumental in play incredibly well. The repetition of “No body cares about the other person, No body cares that all our problems have all worsened” is something to pay attention of. Watch out for a forty-second psychedelic melody at the end of the track. ‘Fire in the Hole’ has another dedicated electric riff with a catchy hook. What makes me laugh is the lyrical lines within the chorus; “oh why oh why do girls always cry, when you tell them that they’re past their sell buy, oh why oh why do girls always cry, when everybody knows we’re living secret lives” • because it’s not nice that’s why lads!
Lastly is the title track, a slower semi acoustic melody with gentle tapping and pings of guitar and an instrumental that shows this band has talent hidden away for a rainy day. Ant West’s gentle vocals are soothing, but as the track comes to an explosive ending of music and passion, they do get a little over whelming with so much going on.
Even with only six tracks, this is more great music than some bands create after years in the industry.