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The Script
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When the roof fell in on the boy band scene, crushing young
knock-offs
in the process, Dubliners
and
high-tailed it to L.A. to engineer for the likes of
,
, and
. Formed with the addition of drummer
, three-piece band
may have become an overnight success in the U.K. and Ireland with their debut single
but their self-titled album bears the imprint of their internship in California, a meticulously and well-scripted (excuse the pun) blend of smooth soul and radio rock in the mould of
. (Indeed, they share much in common with the latter band, having both worked with
in the past.) The singles
are obvious highlights, the former a catalog of hard luck stories -- single mothers, drug-addled rock stars, the usual suspects -- set to the tune of moody jazz guitar chords and lavish strings.
calls to mind the soul-infused modern rock of
, while
sees
talk a friend down from the brink of suicide in the style of
. The highlights come fast and early -- though
borrows a little too much from
's
for comfort -- and by the time the sterile boy band imitations
(essentially a rewrite of
) roll around,
has exhausted its songwriting well twice over. ~ Dave Donnelly
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