Mansions aka Christopher Browder is at his best when he’s writing biting, cynical lyrics. Which is probably why his entire debut album is filled with them. Some of the songs on “New Best Friends” have apparently already been released before but they are now all cleaned up and well, not shiny. It’s hard to call something shiny when the vocals are distorted and there’s a lot of fuzzed up sounds coming through your speakers.
Album opener “I Told A Lie” is a short one-minute introduction to what’s to come before launching into “Talk Talk Talk”, one of the best songs on the album. One of them… because “Por Favor Is Spanish” and “The Worst Part” are pretty amazing as well. If you like Brand New (with whom Browder shares producer Mike Sapone), Jimmy Eat World or Straylight Run, you should have no problem dreaming away with Mansions’s full-length debut.
The second disc contains a whopping 38 MP3-files with the contect of 7 previously released EP’s containing other songs, demo takes or acoustic versions. A fun extra to an already solid debut!
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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