Review: Review: Coloursound EP

The former singer of The Alarm returns with a vocal style so familiar and so unimaginative that he might well have christened his new group The Bono Dog Doo-Dah Band. Breathe is a thumping and unoriginal collection of songs inspired by life on the road in the USA. From Levi’s And Bibles to Poetic Justice, this anthemic set of rock songs has virtually nothing to say and a lot of [read more]

The album title tells it. The Alarm, once ardent sons of ’68 Guns’ have, in their time, hopped, skipped, and straddled most conceivable and accepted rock styles – falling in and out of favour as they’ve done so. If ‘Change” does transcend their solid base of appreciation, then it will almost certainly be helped by Mike Peters’ stark, homespun words streaked with apparent Welsh pride and tarnished emotion. “The valley [read more]

Look At this Review Of Under Attack From Rock Sound Magazine Another Great Review From Manchester Online By AS The Alarm have been through hell since their heady 80�s high times � splits, illness, a fall from grace � yet their masked return as the ‘Poppyfield’ yielded gushing praise, until of course people realised they weren�t ’18 and Too Young To Die’. The album splashes into action with a Clash [read more]