I love ‘The Brightest Green’. It’s a really, really catchy song. Anarbor remind me a little bit of ‘Almost Here’-era The Academy Is… or The Higher before they became a boy band. They write catchy little pop-rock songs that burrow into your brain and stick there for hours afterwards. It’s not re-writing the rulebook and it won’t change the world, but ‘Free Your Mind’ is a shitload of fun; a record that takes catchy hooks and knits them together into a melodic feast of music.
‘Passion For Publication’ is another song that’s as good as anything any of their peers have written. And while one or two of the songs on this release are filler tracks destined for the cutting room floor, this is otherwise a consistent 7-tracker that will have plenty of people singing along. It’s actually quite refreshing that there doesn’t appear to be any synth and no gimmick – just catchy tunes. Can’t ask for any more than that…