The Fray : Singing Low — LCS Single Review

After nearly 15 years as a band The Fray have become a band that have nearly broken the mold of music. They appeal to a big audience with such hits a How To Save A Life and Over My Head, but have recently found something called a synthesizer and have used this to travel back to 2007 and hit us with the classic ‘we are a classic Christian rock band but look to expand our fan base by mindlessly adding instruments to our songs so that people like us’ song. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of The Fray, or anything in the christian rock genre. It’s much too Jesus take the wheel kind of lyrics and the whole arrangement of it all seems ludicrous to me.

With The Fray, they have predictably gotten bored of the regular guitar and drums combination and piano is their main instrument which has brought them fame with the soft rock genre being what all the teenage girls and feminine boys were talking about in those days. It appealed to the more emo scene that didn’t want to limit their listening to the MCR’s, Aiden, Silverstein and Dashboard Confessional. The synths sound like something I would hear in an old style Thomas the Tank Engine episode. The one with the Halloween feel around it make it seriously creepy. Forgetting all the mindless lyrics that make you feel like killing yourself even though they stress that they have to save a life. It’s like any other pop song you have heard and weirdly sounds like X Ambassadors. Whether they have duplicated each others vocal sound is another story, but the fact that they sound uncannily like one another with the addition of the bands new found electronica roots really question the originality of the band.

All in all, The Fray hasn’t much changed from their original stance of their old albums apart from a few unnecessary additions. Their sound, like most things in this world, was eventually lost thanks to the hindrance of technology. Damn you electronica-pop-rock!! Bring back the Fray we once knew and loved!!