The LP kicks off with the band’s debut single ‘New York City Moves to the Sound of LA’. Catchy but seeming like a desperate attempt to produce an indie disco floor filler crossed with an effort to write great punk songs, with lyrics spewing hatred, or so it seems, to unoriginal sounds. This is a bit of a contradiction in terms. Being that although the single has a catchy chorus and beat, it does lack originality and substance, though the instrumental use of cow bells is pretty admirable in itself.
However there are some pretty good tracks, such as ‘Finale’ with its guitar riffs that could even be at most mistaken for The Strokes, but without Julian Casablancas’ legendary vocals, instead to an extent similar to those of a much less aggravating Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. ‘Car Wars’ holds an infectious “Dance-Punk” beat and nifty little “wah-wah” guitar solo. ‘Postcards of Persuasion’ and ‘Where Did It Go Wrong’ are also impressive tracks off this album.
However after these it becomes somewhat monotonous. With a great deal of similarity in each track, but with the exception of the lower tempo; ‘Relics to Ruins’.
Thus Golden Age of Knowhere isn’t a bad album at all; it just sadly lacks fundamental substance.
Jonathan Hatchman.
http://counteract-magazine.com/2011/01/27/album-funeral-party-golden-age-of-knowhere/
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