Album Review

Forever The Sickest Kids – The Weekend: Friday

• 24th Mar 2010

Forever The Sickest Kids have devised a very novel way to follow the success of their debut album – three EPs, one for every day of the weekend.

The Weekend: Friday sees them burst back onto the scene in top form, with their own special brand of pop-punk punctuated with the band’s signature synth.

In fact, Hip Hop Chick, (a tale of straying into a hip-hop club and meeting a girl very different to those on the ‘scene’ they have their roots in) is a good analogy of FTSK’s music. While they may look like your typical pop-rockers, all sorts of sounds and influences collide on this EP. The range of styles woven into their sound – various vocals, expert rock riffs, aggressive punk cries, memorable pop choruses and 80s electro sounds – might sound like an impossible blend. But the band are masters of their own sound, managing to create even within it a diversity; lyrics are sometimes witty (as in Hip Hop Chick), sometimes sensitive (listen to Take it Slow ), and always relevant to their audience.

They reference painfully awkward aspects of relationships – the angst of waiting for that phone call (Tough Love) and so-called friends (What Do You Want From Me, first single taken from this EP) – and yet put them out of your mind with their up-tempo beats that are serotonin for the ears.

Somehow through incorporating so many different things, FTSK achieve one major success with this EP: capturing that Friday feeling.

The Weekend starts here – and it looks like it’s set to be a good one!