Album Review
Boy Jumps Ship – Engines
Starting with one of the best opening riffs that’s likely to grace your ears in 2011, Engines by Boy Jumps Ship sets out to smack its listeners around the face with pounding rhythms, melodic hooks and some truly massive-sounding choruses.
With its influences firmly rooted in the early-noughties sound of Taking Back Sunday and Funeral For A Friend, Engines makes no attempt to reinvent the wheel, focusing instead on supplying four tracks of powerful, emo-tinged rock. What it may lack in originality is more than made up for in quality: Boy Jumps Ship are a band who have found, honed and perfected their own individual sound.
While the songs are structurally very similar to the aforementioned noughties scene, their writing is intricate and imaginative, preventing any accusations of theft; they may have been influenced by many bands, but they can’t be accused of copying any of them.
Whether you enjoy Engines or not depends greatly on your musical morals; if you prefer to listen to music that‘s “cool”, look away now. If, however, your only concerns are quality song writing and excellent musicianship, I suggest you buy this EP and show it to everyone you know; if they’re lucky, Boy Jumps Ship could be huge, and when they are, you’ll be able to say you heard them first.
Engines is a powerful, melodic and massive sounding effort, and is definitely worth 15 minutes of your life to listen to. Go check it out now.