MCFLY
Power To Play (BMG)
Fourteen-year-old me would be squealing at the prospect of hearing a new McFly album, some 20 years after their emergence, and it’s from that vantage point that I’m listening to Power To Play, which finds the boys audibly enjoying themselves playing these new anthems for this new age of teenagers.
The time-honoured McFly sound, too, remains, just more grown-up and framed by the splendid riffs and playful solos you expect from the band. A sense of filmic style prevails, and each track has a hook that I predict will turn even sceptics into newfound fans. Land Of Bees and Honey I’m Home have real moments of storytelling – poetry, even – but its album opener Where Did All The Guitars Go? that’s most reminiscent of their original sound, primed for radio airtime.
Missing the days of having a physical CD to touch, a lyric booklet to read and sleeve art to obsess over, this McFly fan went ahead and ordered it to add to her collection of band merchandise. Power To Play feels like an old-school mixtape – speaking of which, the cassette version of the album is going to confuse anyone under the age of 25…
words BILLIE INGRAM SOFOKLEOUS
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