Album Review - 'Home, Truths', The Cape Race

Hello, 

Welcome to blog post 23! Today I have a fantastic British rock band from Manchester called 'The Cape Race' and I'll be reviewing their upcoming full length debut album 'Home, Truths'. The album will be released on the 11th August and I cannot wait to see what you all think of this band, lets go!

The Cape Race are a five piece band made up of David Moloney (vocals), Matt Sayward (guitar), Adam Lewis (bass, vocals), Scott Perkins (guitar) and Jonny Davys (drums). This band know the definition of 'rock'. Its so refreshing to hear such a loud and vibrant sound coming from this band. In recent years, many 'rock' bands have trailed into the path of 'pop' and have disappointed me when they call themselves a 'rock' band. 

Not this band, oh no, this band know what rock is and do it with a fantastic of mix that keeps the album strong throughout. The band must have spent a long time getting the mix of the album right because I love an album that lets your ears listen to every member of the band, especially the bass. In a lot of albums, the bass is drowned out, but is just as important as the other instruments. The bass lines are heard so clearly on this album, it adds such a great difference in tone to the album especially in songs like 'Collapsing' and in the verses of 'Home Truths'.

If you love head-banging to some real rock riffs and heavy drums then get ready for this album. A lot of it is the heavier side to rock, but the music industry needs a band like this as I've been searching for too long for a proper rock band like this! David's voice is perfect for the band too with a near on screaming voice, but not tipping to that point. He has a fantastic range of vocals too that can reach those falsetto (high) notes extremely well, not to mention a fantastically strong vocal prowess too throughout the record.

The bands sections and breaks in the record definitely know how to keep the songs going, examples of this are the tracks 'Now, Voyager' and 'Digging For Gold'. The build ups for those songs and the sheer sound of noise that come from them at the end from what they built up from at the start is mesmerising to listen to. In 'Digging For Gold', even from the start to the first minute, you know something special is going to happen.

The thing about this album that gets me hyped up about it when I'm listening to each track is that the sound is the same, but each song is different. They haven't tried to be too adventurous, they know their sound and I respect them for sticking to it. Each song has been looked at with incredible depth and talent to make completely different to the song before on the album. Whether this be the breaks they use in the songs, the use of David's falsetto range or a plane and simple switch from regular time to half time. This album keeps on giving and the fact its a deluxe is more of a reason to go get it. 

Its very hard for me to listen to a band at full volume, but this band really deserve to be cranked up to full because the experience is just...well...awesome! The best part is usually when you turn it up loud, a lot of the music is drowned out, but not this album, if anything it adds to the experience! 

So when you all go get the album, you can all tell me what you think it sounds like at full volume! It actually gets me excited the fact that this album will hopefully drive the band to where they need to be in the business. I wish these boys all the best of luck and I'll be following their journey very closely and get the opportunity to go see them live very soon!

The songs that I recommend to you when you buy the album are "Digging For Gold", "Little Whites [Bonus Track]", "Home Truths", "Collapsing", "You Should Have Known" and "Now, Voyager". Although personally I'm loving every track on this album which is rare for me.

I feel very privileged to be given the opportunity to review this bands album before its release, especially when I am loving their sound and the music they are creating. I will leave links below for one of the bands singles which will be on the album and links to their website and all that goodness!

Thank you very much for reading and until next time. 

Lewis

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