This summer has been an important few months for Arches. With a set during this years T in the Park, the release of their first music video and now, the release of their debut EP.
The EP starts with ‘Be This Way’. Arches boast Pop-Rock/Alternative sound, frontman Michael Rice’s vocals bringing to life the soft, melodic instruments playing behind him. The great thing about Arches is the chorus to each song, they would not go a miss at Wembley stadium or the Emirates, with tens of thousands of fans screaming the words back to them on the last leg of their world wide stadium tour. When listening to the EP you start to draw contrasts to U2, huge chorus and soft piano melodies with nice guitar and drums on top of that.
The best song(s) on the EP is ‘Like Fireworks’ which is so good Arches decided to treat us to it twice. First of all the radio edit which sits in the middle of the release but the one to really fall in love with is the 6:45 extended version at the end of the EP. With everything you want from a song, slow build up containing just a faint guitar riff and Michael Rice vocals treating our ears to something spectacular, then more and more layers of sound building up after just a guitar riff getting us on the edge of our seats for a big ‘Just Open Your Eyes’ before everything comes together beautifully to end the EP on a huge, wonderful note.
Broken Clocks is available to download from iTunes for less than £2.50 (albeit it only one pence less) but with that £2.49 you get over 22 minutes of quality pop rock spread across 5 songs.
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