Science & Faith
The Script
The chorus to a pop song can be a wonderful thing. No matter how unsettling or scratchy the verse, no matter how atonal and challenging the bridge, everything comes right in the joyous rush of a decent chorus. The chorus is where storm-clouds are parted, waves calm, and sunshine lights up the darkest corners of the human soul as abruptly as fluorescent strip-lights in a scary cellar.
The Script have just such a chorus, and they know it: so much so that it has been crammed, with minor trims and fiddles, into almost every song on their second album. It’s their secret weapon, a chugging, stately thing which is designed to be equally at home in a stadium sing-along or as the soundtrack to an emotional montage in a TV drama.
What they do is set up a four (or sometimes three) chord trick, where the piano and bass play an urgent four-beats-to-the-bar and Danny O'Donoghue urgently crams a ton of words into a short melodic fragment, which he repeats a lot. He gets to rant and hoot, and they get to strike a few epic rock poses. Everyone's a winner.
You can tell he loves his hip hop as much as his Keane and U2 - although let's not get carried away, it's Keane that win, by a mile - and his sandpaper croon carries a lot of emotional force, particularly on lovelorn snuggles like For the First Time and Nothing.
The downside of relying on this one good idea quite so much - apart from the rising suspicion that you're stuck in a musical mirror-maze -is that songs which are not blessed with The Chorus seem to be half-finished. Walk Away, for example, is a moodier beast than everything else on offer, being closer to Eminem's self-piteous darkness than Coldplay's sunny optimism. But after a heap of consecutive Big Chorus songs, it's hard to escape the feeling that something has been mislaid.
Luckily, it's not a problem anyone has to put up with for very long.
Reviewed by Fraser McAlpine
this is love <3
Whole Album is amazing [6] Every single song is beautiful. [5]
Whole Album is amazing [5] Every single song is beautiful. [4]
For The First Time
even better than the debut album
I love this album :)
♥ ♥ ♥
This is a great album! :)
this is love <3
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It's on repeat here, I bought it last Friday. I'm in love :).. Whole Album is amazing [3] Every single song is beautiful. [2]
Whole Album is amazing [2]
Every single song is beautiful.
Whole Album is amazing
Excellent Album, three days straight listening to it and I still can;t get enough..
I'm only a song and a half into this album and I'm completely blown away. Bravo!
Chegou hoje :D
simply put... the soundtrack of my life right now :-D.... beautiful and powerful xx
Falling more n more in love with both albums... Beautiful music for the soul.
Damn good new album.
i just seen them in Dallas, Texas @ The House of Blues on wednesday..and let me tell you it was GREAT!!! hopefully they come back next year
AMAZING ALBUM! Can't stop listening it. Love every song of it :)
dead man walking,for the first time ,walk away and if you ever come back are amazing
their first album was better in my opinion, still love them thought :)
I had to get used to this, but The Script is as good as ever! If not even better. It's so full of some kind of positivity, it makes me wanna laugh and cry at the same time. [2]
it's hard to believe that both od theirs albums are so great, each and every song is amazing
wow! the album is awesome! I think it's even better than the first one it's so full of some kind of positivity, it makes me wanna laugh and cry at the same time))
So good! This really is amazing. I think it is even better than their first! I was NOT expecting this! WOW! If you have not heard it...what are you doing? LISTEN TO IT NOW!
It's not on spotify yet! :(
My Favourite ALBUM of 2010 so far!!!!!!!! I have to say I was pleasantly suprised by this :D
Science & Faith is amazing!
"The Script" is great, but "Science & Faith" is even better!
Best album release of 2010! [2]
The Script have done it again, what another amazing album :D [2]
The Script have done it again, what another amazing album :D
I'm in love with their new album ♥ ♥ ♥
So good [2]
Sooooooo good!
10/10 [8]
I can't even choose my favourite song! Amazing :)
10/10 [7]
Best album of 2010! [3]
Best album of 2010! [2]
Yea me too..:) It's great!
just got it today, and it is AWESOME.
Yeah! What he said. :)
this one is, well, plain simply put: SUPERB :D
Best album of 2010!
Best album release of 2010!
10/10 [4]