[Album Review] White Wives – 'Happeners'

I have been waiting for this album to come out since the EP was released earlier this year. After waiting – I am not disappointed.

This band gives each of the members and chance to write and sing about different subjects then they normally do. A great outlet for each member. Some people think the band is too mellow on some songs, or just doesn’t have the right sound – those are the people are are not listening to the words they’re just listening to the background noise.

Each song has words you can connect with. The songs on this album will hit a part of you, maybe even a part of you which you’ve forgotten about. From being losing someone dear to you to finding that person that makes you forget your worries with just one kiss. The feeling to the whole album is move forward and never to forget those memories you made with each person you’ve loved.

The track ‘Hallelujah, I’m Mourning’ will hit a chord for you if you’ve ever lost anyone near and dear to you. It’s the one track I’ve had stuck in my head the most and is hard for me to keep the tears in. That’s a beautiful thing when a song can hit you that deep and bring back those black and white memories from your youth.

There are songs you will know on the full length album if you picked up their EP. ‘Hungry Ghosts’, ‘Spinning Wheels’, and ‘Another City For A New Weekend’ all made the cut on the album. Once you listen through the album fully you’ll find more songs to love and learn.

Through the album I hear sounds and elements from bands that I grew up listening to. In a way reliving when I fell in love with music. White Wives adds to those elements to make them their own.

As I said before with the release of this album I was not disappointed in the songs which are on the album. It purely shows the talent and chemistry is there between these four men – their backgrounds with other bands doesn’t matter the one thing that does matter is the fact that music brought them together in an explosion of brilliant songs.

This has been the first album in about two years that I haven’t skipped any tracks while listening to it. That is a rare thing to happen, especially when the music listener is me. This album just brings my heart home.

Listen to this album. It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of their other musical outlets – it only matters that you’re a music fan in general.

5 Stars out of 5 Stars

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