Hedley - Storms (Deluxe Edition) Review

         
Cool album cover guys, but what about the music, does it suck? Oh it doesn't. Alright then. This album was released Nov. 8th 2011 and is the 4th album released from this band. It is the first album I have listened to from them. Track listing is as follows.

One Life
Invincible
Heaven's Gonna Wait
We Are Unbreakable
Young
Beautiful
Bullet For Your Dreams
Hot Mess
Stormy
Last Call
I Won't Let You Go (Darling)
------------------- Bonus tracks below
Hiding Place
Carry On
Heaven's Gonna Wait (Acoustic)

The first thing I'm gonna say is that the deluxe edition is probably not worth it. I did think this was a decent album, but the stuff I liked was not the bonus tracks. So I wouldn't bother going out of my way or spending any additional money on the this version over the normal.

There are a few songs off of the album I think are worthy of note. The first track, One Life, is a nice little anthem about living your one life (see what they did there?) to the fullest. My thought is, they have no proof. Hmmm what proof have you that I only get one life Hedley? None! For all you know I could have had 73 lives by now! I also quite like young, a fun upbeat song about being young and partying, though in a sense this song carries a rather wistful tone, cause he says "we were young" and talks about the fun things they used to do, implying that such things no longer occur, at one point he mentions being a zombie and feeling like he's 45 so the song (while not instantly apparent) is in a way kind of sad and nostalgic of better times.

Stormy and Hot Mess I'm kinda on the fence about. Stormy I only really like the chorus of, and Hot Mess I got back and forth, more mood dependent I suppose.

But all in all I'd say this is a decent album. I find it's not common for me to like more than 2 songs off an album. Maybe I'm just hard to please (Ladies) but that's average for me. I did find another song by the band that I liked called Kiss You Inside Out (Side note: Hands up for people that this is your fetish I know you're out there) which was on the re-release of this album in 2012. That's probably the version of this album to get, say "sod it" to the sucky deluxe edition content and grab the one other good song.

7 upended ships out of 10