A marvellous 14 track debut offer from the latest band out of a seemingly everlasting Devonshire enclave. These Reigning Days are very much a melody lovers dream, lilting guitars over a Hurts, White Lies style vocal.
The entire album screams Sunday playlist with a reflective coffee, but has an underlying power that can be turned up to power a heartfelt and anthem laden festival performance.
Tracks like ‘Stand Down’ and ‘Thrones’ are going to be staples for their future audiences and charming vocal explorations on ‘I Need Time’ show a soulfully crafted songwriting skill that seems so simple but is so rhythmically multilayered that it is a haunting delight.
There are tracks, such as ‘Living it Up’, that are clearly chart influenced, no bad thing but not the wow of tracks like ‘Satellite’ which punch and stand out as potential singles.
I have not been as impressed on a first run through of an album in a longtime. No filler tracks just a wonderful album packed with differing emotion and festival performable anthems.
It's a guarantee for my top ten list this year
Iain @docswallow
10.5/11
