[Music] LostProphets - Weapons

On first play through my impression of “Weapons” is much the same as for the Keane albums – more of the same. However on reflection I’m not sure that that’s true.

Album cover for "Weapons" (Credit: idobi.com)

LostProphets are another discovery from my school years, and I bought their first album on the strength of the title track, which I love. Unfortunately I didn’t get on with the rest of the album so well, and it’s my least favourite of theirs so far. Their follow-up albums were, in order, pretty good anthemic pop-rock (“Start Something”), very good slightly softer pop-rock with some edgier songs (“Liberation Transmission”), and excellent, mixing aggressive, repetitive hard-rock with more lyrical numbers (“The Betrayed”).

“Weapons” seems to revert back towards “Start Something” in feel and tone, at least to me. That doesn’t make it bad, just not what I really enjoy from LostProphets. “The Betrayed” is, in my opinion, their best album, and after hearing their sound evolve through four albums it’s a shame for it to, apparently, regress slightly. Some of the songs sound promising though, and after only a single play of the album I think it’s a bit early to write it off. Promising, but I need to listen to it a bit more.