Last One Home and The ‘Land Of Immortality’ Single.
Last One Home – Taunton, England, United Kingdom.
Photo credit: Zoe Barton.
Does much happen in Taunton aside from learning of it’s rich history, who knows? Do I have any real idea on this? No, not really. In fact the people I do know who either hail from the west country town or live there for whatever reason often spend a lot of their time away from it but that is by the by.
It could be said that I was digressing there but my apparent rambling has reason. Just because a town may not have anything going on via first look, that does not mean that is the whole case. Enter, Last One Home.
A band taking influence from the Pop-Punk of Green Day and Simple Plan to the genre spanning Alternative Rock of the Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro, Last One Home have a plethora of ideas to amalgamate and play with.
In the case of the latest single ‘Land Of Immortality’, the band manage a sound Pop-Punk friendly but varied and teasing enough to sit them in a variety of tastes and or bills.
The track’s intro in it’s first part very much epitomises the more Alt-Rock-led wing of contemporary Pop-Punk, with the low bass strings and more weighted but still Pop-Rock-applicable style drumming holding down a track trying to soar off into pop-filled skies, resulting in a subtle dichotomy to the band’s sound.
In regard to the chorus, it is very much mid-2000’s Pop-Punk when the genre decided to forgo the Punk almost entirely bar the tempo. You’d think I’m being negative there with the onset sarcastic tone but I’m not, ‘Land Of Immortality’ has a youthfully exuberant chorus and it’s addictive.
Throughout almost the entirety the track – or at least post-intro – Last One Home (somehow) straddles Pop-Punk, Pop-Rock and a clear penchant heavier Alternative Rock from dichotomy to trichotomy as evenly as they can, with subtle segues into each of the aforementioned in the best way possible.
Would I like to see some of these heavier influences and tendencies a little more manifested? Yes, but in truth, ‘Land Of Immortality’ is the damn good Pop song with a solid Rock foundation.
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