And while it seems logical to replicate the song that boosted you into the mainstream, it just comes as lazy and uninspired for the band.
The song, and essentially the album as a whole, is the sequel to their 2014 effort. The band seems so hell-bent on replicating the success they had with “Hold my Home” that for it to happen they had to replicate the best hit off of that album. Oh, that’s right, it sounds oddly familiar to their mega-hit, “First” off their previous album. Featuring stomp-heavy percussion, reverb-infused guitar licks and anthemic lyrics, you’d almost think that you’ve heard the track somewhere else before. No song exemplifies this further than “Can We Hang On?” the second track of the album. Divine” becomes too safe of an album and, in the process, takes no creative risk - making it an album of no real standout hits. It’s not bad for a band to keep their same sound as they go from record to record, but for a “mainstream” rock band like Cold War Kids, a little more variety would have been appreciated. Divine” in what can be described as unfortunately, more of the same. They blew up with their previous studio effort, “Hold my Home” in 2014 with what is considerably their biggest single to date, the not-so-intimate-but-anthem-heavy, “First.” Now, the band is headlining their sixth studio effort “L.A. It was bizarre, but ever since then I’ve known Cold War Kids as that one band that played an intimate gig at my school.įast forward 10 years later, and Cold War Kids have had somewhat considerable success in the industry.
I’ve been living in Rubidoux for about a year when this seemingly random and relatively unknown band decided to play a gig at our school because apparently some of the band grew up in the town, as alluded to in the song (“Drive to Rubidoux in the middle of the night / Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight”). See, on their 2006 debut, “Cowards and Robbers,” the indie rock band had a track titled, “Rubidoux,” named after a small town right next to UCR (now named Jurupa Valley) home to the hiking-friendly Mt. If I told you that I once saw Cold War Kids perform at my middle school’s cafeteria when I was in seventh grade, would you believe me? No? Yes? Well, it’s true. Post Views: 988 Courtesy of Capitol Records
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