ALBUM: SixNationState – SixNationState

One of the most difficult most annoying jobs of being a journalist is having to listen to promo CDs of unknown bands. As you can imagine, a lot are either bands doing bad rip-offs of other, more commercially successful bands, or seem intent on screaming to the point their vocal chords spectacularly rupture. On average, a lucky journalist gets one CD a year that makes him continue reviewing. Last week, I found that CD.

SixNationState, whose self-titled debut album is released in September, blends infectiously nifty guitar riffs with blissful lyrics to make what can only be described as a perfect debut album. Currently touring around the UK, the bands raw live energy is clearly apparent on the albums more rockier tracks like “Keep Dancing” and “Talking Me Over”, whilst mellow tracks like “We Could Be Happy” and “Don’t Need You Anymore” could be excused as tracks by bands like Blur, The Foo Fighters or even the Kaiser Chiefs.

 If anything, the only criticism I have of this album is that I find it hard to see where the singles will come from, partly because each track is different to the last, meaning that newcomers to the band may get irritated by the, but partly that despite this, most tracks could be singles, and even after a weeks listening, I can’t decide which ones I would release if I was in the position to do so.

SixNationStates debut album is released on 24 September 2007. Procure one from here