Album Review

Scouting For Girls - The Light Between UsScouting For Girls – The Light Between Us

Ever since Scouting For Girls released their self titled debut album in 2007 they become a household name and have enjoyed a good ride at the top of the charts but for some reason working on their third studio album ‘The Light Between Us’ nearly split them up and saw them work alongside five different producers and clock up a lot of studio time across different periods of time over the past year and now they are back more confident than ever with ‘The Light Between Us’ just released and the band claiming it to be their strongest album so far.

‘The Light Between Us’ features eleven upbeat three minute long tracks which have a massive happy energetic summer feel and Scouting For Girls couldn’t of picked a better time to release the album as after a nonexistent UK summer it seems like the sun has finally found its way to grace us and I am sure a few people will make the most of the BBQ weather and this could quite likely be their playlist.

The album starts off with a piano introduction and Roy Stride singing “I Want You Back Naked, I Want You Back Naked’ as the band kick off with ‘Without You’ a song which they wrote back in 2011 and played it to a sold out crowd at their one off Forestry commission show at Westonbirt Arboretum back in June 2011 when the song was still in its demo stages with a working title of ‘Naked’ , the song has all the classic Scouting For Girls elements and perfectly sets the pace for the album.

‘Summertime In The City’ is the latest single from Scouting For Girls and is easily the perfect soundtrack for the summer of 2012 with Roy stride singing “Oh, oh, oh I hope that it doesn’t rain It’s summer, it’s summer, it’s summer in the city” which is something that pretty much everyone in Britain can relate to this year, musically the song is big and catchy and easily up there with previous Scouting For Girls singles.

‘Love How It Hurts’ was released as a single back in May 2011 which by a time scale shows the struggle that Scouting For Girls had creating ‘The Light Between Us’, the song is still as listenable now as it was when it was originally released.

‘Snakes And Ladders’ and ‘Six Degrees’ are both massively catchy tracks which have the potential to be future singles and they all have quirky lyrics which stand out for the better such as “Even though you play me like an Xbox I don’t want you to take your hands off me, me, me” in ‘Snakes And Ladders’ and “There’s only six degrees between you and me we’re on the same path you just got a head start” in ‘Six Degress.

‘Rocky Balboa’ is an interesting song that a lot of people will be raising their eyebrows to ,the song is as catchy and melodic as you would expect from Scouting For Girls but it is catchy to the point that it starts to sound slightly cheesy but you still end up singing-a-long and loving the song and not taking note of the cheesyness until it is far too late and the song is already spinning around your head.

The album closes with ‘Make This The Last One’ a song which see’s Scouting For Girls tone things down for the first time in their career as they go down a slight sad yet mature route which they pull off extremely well .

With ‘The Light Between Us’ Scouting For Girls have done what they always do and created an album full of big catchy sing-a-long songs which all have the potential to be future singles well apart from ‘Make This The Last One’, unless they do want to prove to the world that they can break their own rule book and pen a slow paced song.

5/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Roy Stride
Greg Churchouse
Peter Ellard
 Track Listing
1. Without You
2. Summertime In The City
3. Love How It Hurts
4. Downtempo
5. Snakes And Ladders
6. Six Degrees
7. Rains In L.A.
8. Rocky Balboa
9. Somebody New
10. The Light Between Us
11. Make This One Last
 Band Related Links
Scouting For Girls Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?