This Was A Home Once- Bad Suns Review

Bad Suns is probably the best pop-rock band in the world. With roots in post-punk, all their songs are emotive, unique, catchy and guitar based. And guess what- they can actually play their instruments! And even more surprising for a Pop-rock band, they use instruments! In addition, both their albums are excellent all the way through, something not many bands can claim.

I was a bit surprised to see this new single on YouTube, because their last album, Disappear Here, was released only a year ago, and the tours for that are just finishing(sadly I missed them). The song starts with a glittery keyboard, excellent fuzzy but controlled guitar, a smattering of Passion Pit-esque synths and a bit of simple drumming. Those synthes continue through a song about growing up and things changing too fast to track, with barely any of that good guitar(where are the riffs of Disappear here?). It ends with a Imagine Dragons or similar band breaking apart ending with the chorus repeating and lots of ooohs, backed by a poppy Coldplay style vaguely britpop guitar riff that really shouldn't have come in so late.

I don't know how this fits in with the Bad Suns discography, probably not a single for a new album, but you never know. Hopefully they don't continue with all these synths, leaving behind the guitars they can play so well, for Smallpools like idiocy. This song is still good, but leans in a terrifying direction that I hope they don't go down.
 

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