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Paramore - Brand New Eyes

 

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We'll make sure to build your house brick by boring brick

 

Paramore’s third album ‘Brand New Eyes’, is officially my favorite album of 2009. As you can imagine, September was turning into a great month for new music for me. Frank Turner’s third release at the beginning of the month, the release of ‘The Resistance’ a week later and finally Paramore’s highly anticipated third release a fortnight later. I’ve always liked Paramore, it’s hard not like a band when they’re fronted by Hayley Williams. As I’m sure is the case with most, I first heard of them during their ‘Riot’ era which then made me go back and listen to their debut ‘All We Know Is Falling’. Many thanks to fellow poster Ashford, for introducing me to them at Leeds festival 2007 (first act on the Main Stage on Sunday), since then I have not looked back. Whilst both ‘All We Know Is Falling’ and ‘Riot’ are great records, ‘Brand New Eyes’ is in a league of its own, it’s a lot more mature for starters. Rumors were rife at the end of the bands ‘Riot’ tour last year that the band were on the verge of splitting. Although the band came close to calling it a day, they worked through their problems and got to work on ‘Brand New Eyes’. On almost every song, the lyrics are suggestively personal. On ‘Looking Up’ for example, Williams sings “God knows the world doesn’t need another band, but what a waste it would’ve been! I can’t believe we almost hung it up, we’re just getting started.” At 12 tracks, and 45 minutes in total, the album is just the right length. Pretty much all of the songs on the album stand out as highlights ‘Careful’, ‘Ignorance’, ‘Playing God’, the heart warming ‘The Only Exception’ ‘When The Lines Overlap’, 'All I Ever Wanted' and ‘Decode’.

, the albums second single is by far the album's standout for me. Ever since I first heard it, I have loved it. I’ve listened to it a ridiculous amount but with each listen it just seems to get better and better. Everything about the song is just perfect. I don’t think I can begin to describe just how much I love it. ‘Misguided Ghosts’ being the only song on the album that doesn’t match the quality of the album’s other songs. Even still, the song is a great listen. Everything about this era just works so well for me; the artwork, the promo videos and of course the music itself. It sounds to selfish to say but I’m glad the band had problems, because without being on the verge of breaking up last year, I don’t know if they would have been able to make an album THIS good. The more I think about it, the more I am glad I made the decision to bump this record up to the top spot. It’s become a personal record in the past couple of months and the more I listen, the more I continue to fall in love with it. From start to finish, I just can’t pick fault.

 

Yeh I can't wait, never seen them before. Love the London excitement aswell :D

 

London BABY!

 

Paramore album is AMAZING, I know they have a lot of haters on here but it really is a perfect album for what it is. I agree that, whilst their previous two efforts were good, they don't hold a candle to this.

 

Exceptional.

Muse at number 1? excellent choice well done. Cant wait to see them at Wembley. woop woop.

Paramore album is AMAZING, I know they have a lot of haters on here but it really is a perfect album for what it is. I agree that, whilst their previous two efforts were good, they don't hold a candle to this.

 

Exceptional.

 

Thank you :) I obviously agree with your comments

 

'They don't hold a candle to this' amused me for some reason :lol:

 

Muse at number 1? excellent choice well done. Cant wait to see them at Wembley. woop woop.

 

Paramore at No.1 // Muse at No.2 :)

 

Nor me :cheer:

 

Muse at No.1 :)

 

Nor me :cheer:

 

good innit.

I own:

 

02: Muse - The Resistance

07: Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

09: Lady GaGa - The Fame: Monster

14: Prodigy - Invaders Must Die

15: Kasabian - West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum

18: Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star

27: Little Boots - Hands

 

But I really ought to buy the Metric album.

 

Thank you all for your comments :)

 

Next up: Top 50 Singles of 2009 :o