Album Review
The Chelsea Smiles - The Chelsea SmilesThe Chelsea Smiles - The Chelsea Smiles

A Self Titled and second full release,The Chelsea Smile hard rock/Glam band formed in 2004 featuring guitarist Todd Youth formerly of Danzig.

This album can be described as either fairly original or something that you've heard too many times but you like it anyway, but its something that many good and successful band have done but have failed to make as memorable.

The opening track, Take You Away, is a great start, it grabs your attention while being catchy and memorable its a good opening to the album. Drowned is a similar song to the opener while not being as good it holds its own.

I'm gone is a fantastic song that wouldn't go amiss in a top ten Chart got the same feel as manned machine by robbie williams, its certainly should be single. Leave You Cold is a good punk song with youth drawing slightly from his Danzig days.

So low seems to be a track thrown away by oasis and picked out of the bin by TCS,they may have pinched some vocal sounds from the gallaghers, deffinatly a brit pop song, but not quite.

Second from last is a Rolling Stones Cover The last Time, it stays to close to original and is a good cover thos but not really putting there own stamp on it.

The last track, Broken Lullabies, has been again pinched from the oasis waste bin, its a good acoustic song with a chourus to sing along to, and if it was in the charts people would believe it was an oasis bside cover, a great ending to the album.

Overall this is a very good album, while it doesn't cut you from ear to ear like the bands name would want to, its diverse enough to be almost original but its mostly familiar when hearing similarity's to other bands but it shouldn't put you off, could be your next favorite band with enough backing, they could make it big.

4/5

Review by Rob
 Band Members
The Chelsea Smiles - Band
Todd Youth (Vocals, Guitar)
RJ Ronquillo (Guitar)
Johnny Martin (Bass)
Karl Rosqvist (Drums)
 Track Listing
1. Take You Away
2. On The Run
3. Drowned
4. Im Gone
5. Action Coming Down
6. Leave You Cold
7. Nothing To Lose
8. So Low
9. Little Misfit
10. Gotta Get Some
11. The Last Time
12. Broken Lullabies
 Band Related Links
The Chelsea Smiles Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?