11:00am Friday 6th February 2009
By Nick Churchill
WHAT is it that has seduced the ears of the buying public into thinking The Fray come anywhere near passing muster. Their star-bright, super tight melodies and shiny production are so inoffensive they’d probably request a mat to wipe their feet on before their crossed your aural threshold.
If the soft rockers’ 2005 debut, How To Save a Life, taught them anything it was that there’s a massive market for music this bland which is why this eponymous follow up doesn’t change a thing. Piano-based ballads that make Coldplay sound like serial killers politely ask for space alongside chirpy guitar songs Chicago would have baulked at.
I can’t help thinking if it hadn’t been for The Feeling and Blunt the world might never have had to endure this. Or Orson... or The Script... or...
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