I know, I know. I just had a blog about The Fray's latest single, "Heartbeat". But now their new album, "Scars And Stories" is out and I must say, I'm thoroughly impressed. I knew without a doubt that this album was going to be good. I knew that there would be songs I would personally relate to, and would probably play over and over. But I had no idea how far they would push themselves sonically with their 3rd album. As I said in my previous post, The Fray likes to stick to the same formula and tends to not experiment with sound. Which is fine to an extent. I totally get that as a band once you figure out what works for you, you stick with it. But also, as a band you MUST experiment with your sound and you must evolve. Re-duplicating an album over and over again won't do anything for you. Every album should be its own entity, and should be treated as a new slate. Well, The Fray definitely took that state of mind with them to the studio this go around. "Scars And Stories" is incredible. They really did experiment with their sound, and made music that was completely out of their element. I'm super proud of them, and am so excited that they proved me wrong. I expected this album to be similar to their previous two, but I was dead wrong. I haven't discovered "the song" yet though with my first listen through, which is a bummer. Hopefully one of the songs will really grab me with my next listen. Check out "Scars And Stories" NOW!
4/5 Stars!
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