 
Take The Seven are five-piece band hailing from
Chesterfield and despite only being a band for
a year they have already managed to bad shows
playing alongside many high profile bands such
as Sense Fail, Glamour Of The Kill, Failsafe and
even My Passion, recently the band have been in
the studio working alongside Carl Bown on their
debut mini-album ‘Lots Of Trouble, Usually
Serious’ which is now complete and ready
to be unleashed on the world in January when Take
The Seven step out to embark on their most important
year to date as a band.
‘Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious’
is a very special mini-album, for a start before
you even get to listen to the music you will see
the artwork which features a once cute bunny who
has now grown up to be a massive monster and it
is such a great piece of art, it may well not
go along with the band’s sound as if you
had to label what genre of music Take The Seven
are just looking at the artwork I would imagine
at least 80% of people would put them down to
being screamo which is so not the case and goes
back to the classic saying of never judge a book
by it’s cover, or in this instance label
a band by their artwork.
Musically ‘Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious’
is an fast paced high energy pop punk mini album
which features well written beautiful lyrics which
are sung in a big catchy way by Dan Molloy whilst
the rest of the band come together with chugging
guitar riffs, pounding bass lines and heavy, constant
drum beats.
The mini-album opens with ‘Welcome To My
Town’ and like with any new band the opening
track is normally the make or break moment as
if it’s a bit average many listeners will
instantly switch off but if it shows signs of
positivity then most listeners will stay on and
ride out the album and luckily for Take The Seven
they have created one hell of a stunning opening
track with ‘Welcome To My Town’, from
the start the song is really up tempo and features
some truly infectious instrumental work, but let’s
not forget the infectious chorus which Dan Molloy
sings with ease and perfection and also the group
chant-a-long vocals which come in towards the
later part of the song.
‘Through The Crossfire’ reminds me
of early You Me At Six material and is bound to
grow to become a fan favourite and also a live
favourite at the band’s future live shows,
once again everything is upbeat and the instrumental
work features a lot of killer riffs and what not
being knocked out.
The majority of the mini-album is full of big
sing-a-long moments with ‘Ships And Sails’
being the most sing-a-long track on the album,
but that is not to say that Take The Seven are
all about full on melodic tracks as ‘Duchess’
see’s the band tone things down for 4minutes
whilst the album closing track ‘The Artist’
see’s Take The Seven go acoustic and the
song is beautiful sounding and really has to be
heard to be believed.
As far as debut’s go Take The Seven has
done extremely well with ‘Lots Of Trouble,
Usually Serious, the album mainly has a pop-punk
theme running throughout but Take The Seven have
also thrown in a few mellow moments which shows
that they can be diverse when it comes to their
music, and I seriously bet these guys can’t
wait for January to come so they can fully unleash
‘Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious’.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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