 
Since they formed back in 2008 Twenty Twenty have
been on an incredible journey in the music industry
they have supported many huge pop bands ranging
from McFly, The Saturdays, The Wanted, Avril Lavigne,
Scouting For Girls and many others and when they
are not supporting high profile bands they are
embarking on their own headline tour which has
seen them rise from playing the small room in
the Academy venues across the country to now selling
out the Academy 1 in many towns and cities months
in advanced.
Twenty Twenty released their debut album ‘Small
Talk’ back in April 2011 and it entered
the UK charts at number 26 and featured 9 well
polished pop-punk tracks that you couldn’t
help but sing and bounce along to, towards the
end of 2011 Twenty Twenty announced that they
were working on their second studio album and
this time around they decide to go through pledge
to fund the record where their fans could donate
money to get exclusive, rare and signed Twenty
Twenty items and they smashed the pledge goal
in no time by an extra 38%.
The bands second album ‘25th Hour’
has just been released and just like their debut
album it features 9 pop-punk tracks which have
a big American feel, yet I feel the time apart
between the albums have gave Twenty Twenty extra
confidence and helped them create a much more
mature sounding album which is instantly accessible
but will take a couple of listens for people to
fully appreciate the greatness on offer.
The album opens with ‘Trouble’ which
happens to be the single Twenty Twenty released
a couple of weeks before the album and it is a
fast and furious number oozing with energy, the
band bounce through the song in a crazy 2minutes
and 48seconds and its top stuff from start to
finish with excellent lead vocals and strong backing
vocals coming in at the right time.
The album title track ‘25th Hour’
shows a more mature side of Twenty Twenty, the
song opens in a chilled out way but as soon as
the chorus kicks in Twenty Twenty do what they
do best and and let off a mad burst of energy
whilst they frantically take over the airwaves
with some fantastic musicianship.
‘Morning After You’ is a slow paced
song yet the instrumental and vocal work that
is put into the song helps make it one of the
stand out tracks on the album as instrumentally
its more toned down than your usual Twenty Twenty
song yet vocally things are beautiful sounding
especially during the soft sounding chorus of
“It’s the morning after, morning after
you”.
‘Over Your Spell’ see’s Twenty
Twenty up their game instrumentally as they lay
down some big riffs and generally bounce through
the song at an amazing pace, ‘Beautiful
Monster’ is a big sing-a-long song, whilst
‘You And I (Next Big Thing’ is a beautiful
song about new relationships and ‘Killing
The Cancer’ is easily the best song on the
album coming across with a punch edge.
With ‘25th Hour’ Twenty Twenty have
delivered the goods again and their fans are going
to instantly snap up the album, the only negative
comment I have to say about the album is it puzzles
me on why Twenty Twenty can never make it to 10
tracks when it comes to releasing an album as
a 9 track album is more of an mini album but I
guess it’s better having an album with 9
killer tracks than releasing an album with more
tracks that are all filler.
5/5
Review By Trigger
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