New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem return with their fifth studio album 'Get Hurt'. The album begins with Stay Vicious, which brings a heavier sound for The Gaslight Anthem. This distorted sound is certainly a different direction to The Gaslight Anthem's previous but fans were told that that's what to expect from Get Hurt. 1,000 Years is next and moves to a more familiar style, with Fallon's vocals clearer and the guitars lighter and more melodic.
The album drifts between this style of track, with distorted guitars and gruff vocals, to softer songs. The album is certainly much darker and heavier and overall a slower tempo than previous by The Gaslight Anthem, but at the same time it seems to lack as much heart when compared to albums such as Handwritten or The '59 Sound. The change in sound may be to give them a more mature edge, or that is simply where the band are now, but it carries less songs to really sing along to and more with deeper meanings in the lyrics, that just seem to get lost in the production. All that said, it is not a bad album by any means, it's easy to get into and enjoyable to listen to, but won't go down as one of The Gaslight Anthem's best.
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