Union Youth plays a combination of rock ’n roll combined with rock and sometimes even some Britpop. When the album starts I hear a nice guitar riff. My first reaction was promising; this sounds pretty damn good. But then the vocals kicked in. And these are a bit too intense, in some way they remind me to a former Roadrunner Records band called Dirty Americans, but this sounds overdone.

 

Luckily they only use this overdone vocals in the first song because they sound much better in the following tracks. The second one reminds me of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” mixed with some song I have heard on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 on the Playstation; I have to say this is one of my favourite tracks on this album. To be honest, this song simply rocks. And track three appears to be a Britpop song. This is what I have been hating the last year, I just can’t stand this genre and every time I have listened to this album I have skipped this song!

 

The rest of the album continues with strong rock songs; they aren’t really bringing in new elements but the band is just relying on previous successes and sometimes that is the right thing to do. The production is very raw and the guitars are coming out in an old fashioned way which can be heard on older rock albums.

 

The cover of the album is attractive and you will not notice this album is made by German people because they are singing in excellent English. Too bad there isn't a lot of originality on this album, but the things the band do are done good enough. Union Youth may not be the best rock band in the history of man kind; they sure made a decent rock record.