Young the Giant - Mirror Master

Alternative indie band Young the Giant return with their 4th full length album "Mirror Master". The Californian 5 piece burst on to the scene in 2010 with their self titled debut album. I thought that up until this album came out, it was Young the Giant's best album. But their second and third albums; "Mind over Matter" and "Home of the strange" respecitively showed a band who have found their rhythm and have a high level of consistency of producing very good albums.

"Mirror Master" I feel very much sees them in their own comfort zone. If you like Young the Giant before I think you will really like this album. The consistency which I was talking about in the introduction has well and truely carried over to this album and I would even go as far as saying that in places they have upped their game. So much so there is stuff on "Mirror Master" which is some of the best work they have ever done. 

There is a good mixture of songs on here, from upbeat, head nodding stompers to some more delicate songs which really show off Sameer Gadhia's superb vocals. I often say with bands that you can have good guitar players, bass players and drummers. But more often than not its the vocals which can set a band apart.  And this is one of the reasons I think Young the Giant have been producing such great music over the last 8 years and beyond.

The upbeat songs I am talking about come in the shape of "Superposition", hit single "Simplify" and the title track which finishes off the album.  Really good, feel good tracks.  But my favourite track off the album is the slowest and that's "Darkest Shade of Blue". It's a song which is not in a hurry at all. Slow paced, fine lyrics and vocals just very pleasent listening. If anything I wish it would last a bit as it is only 2 minutes 13 seconds long.

Overall I think "pleasent listening" describes how I feel when listening to this record. Young the Giant have produced another fine album. With the singles being so good it will be interesting if radio stations pick up on the fact they have upped their game a bit and play them a bit more.