Album Review - The Earlybirds "Favourite Fears"

So with today being August 23, I decided that I would go and get The Earlybirds debut album "Favourite Fears."

Now before I say anything about the band or the album, I feel it necessary to acknowledge my extreme bias. I went to kindy with The Earlybirds frontman Filip Kostovich, I know his parents, they are very good people.

Righty then, onto the album.

I knew that I would love this album well before I toddled down to the local Warehouse, (Thanks Ivan for playing their early singles all those years ago), It also helps that I have been following them since then. But the key factor in why this is a good, nay great album is that I put it on when I got back to the Batcave and everyone commented on how good it was. None of them had heard of The Earlybirds before, but then again, who watches music television unless they are at Unimart. 

The album opens with "Cold To The Touch," One of the softer songs of the album. It certainly sets the feeling of epic-ness that will follow though. Followed by "Low." It is most certainly one of the key pieces of the album. Then we get to the bands 3rd single "I Can't Live Without You." Enough Said. "On Your Shoulder" gives you a break from the epic with a softer popy tune. "Truth" kicks it buck up for a faster-paced happy fun time. "Runaway" is the bands original single, very much reminiscent of the bands early years back at the Masonic Tavern in Devonport. "No You In Youth" is the most indie song of the bunch, and with such a catchy name, who could blame them. "Metaphobia" is a song that I listened to the day before the album came out, and instantly I was captivated, such a piece is usually only made by acts much older than The Earlybirds (NB: The album name is a lyric of this song). "I Killed The Dj" was the bands second single, and with the changing flow of the music, its little wonder that they have made it this far. "Kill To Love" is the penultimate track, and it gives us a nice wind down (with lyrics that are a pleasant injection of humour) into "Sleep" an instrumentally heavy track, very slow and befitting of the name it was given, and at 8:52, a very nice close to a very wonderful album

5/5

UPDATE Feb 16 2011:
Just released the offical video for "Truth", Link has been changed.