Music Review: The Script - "Science & Faith"

The album "Science & Faith" was my first time ever knowingly listening to the Irish band The Script. In my opinion the best song on the entire thing was the final track "Walk Away," but my song by song notes are below if you have your own favorite and wanted to see what my ears thought.

"You Won't Feel A Thing": Musically it feels like a U2 type of rock song is going to be coming, but when the vocals begin I felt like they were familiar from another musical source, never could put my finger on it, sounds like another song. The lyrics are delivered at a fast reading pace that feels off to me and for some reason I kept thinking it would be better served as a country song. Any way, bland, U2 pop rock without the clout.

"For The First Time": I have heard this song on the radio, did not expect it here when it started up. A pop song that feels like it could just as easily have been a Bruno Mars R & B laced track. It's got a catchy groove to it, a soft hook going into your mouth, you can let it tug you in and not feel too victimized by the music producing powers that be.

"Nothing": Another too cool for school, smooth pop rock, ballad-ish song that you could imagine a popular R & B artist covering. Good stuff for the radio and not corrosive for your ears if the radio has to replay it over and over and over and over again like they do.

"Science & Faith": A bluesy voice with more rock I would dub U2 style and with a semi-interesting concept behind the lyrics about explaining how relationships work. However, it is ultimately a boring collage of sounds.

"If You Ever Come Back": The Script have shown who they are as a band to me now I think. This is another song where the vocals seem out of the pop rock genre, yet there they are, a little soul that goes far in terms of hooking you in with a catchy chorus. However, "If You Ever Come Back" suffers from being the third track that fits the "formula" and thus is boring compared to "For the First Time," and "Nothing" if you are an album and not a singles person.

"Long Gone and Moved On": I bet American Idol Paul McDonald could do a good impersonation of the lead singer from The Script and I bet they could both do a decent Rod Stewart. Sometimes you are going to get gold from that unique rasp, but then there are times like "Long Gone and Moved On" when it is just dull and easy to move on from.

"Dead Man Walking": They've got the "it" factor for radio play on their singles and this one seems like a perfect radio airplay fit. I hate songs that play on the radio, even the ones you like they run into the ground and make you hate them. This one has legs, but wobbly ones for me, I don't really like it, but would expect to hear it and would let it play out when tune surfing.

"This = Love": A fail at trying to make the "it" factor for the radio play like I spoke of with "Dead man Walking." Or flip a coin; coin bounces, rolls into the sewer. Boring and when he says "this is love" he pronounces love like a guy who got stung on the tongue by a bumblebee and tried to soothe it with enough whiskey to slur his already affected pronunciation skills.

"Exit Wounds": It fits on the album, but doesn't make a strong argument for making the album fit in your collection of keepers. There are some dramatic lyrics that will appeal to the same type of hearts that tune into "Grey's Anatomy" every week, even though it turned into a silly, everyone sleeping with everyone else soap opera of crap shortly into the second season.

"Bullet From A Gun": Another song that sounds a familiar, perhaps I have heard it before, or perhaps it is just a borrower of sounds from other artist in some way. I could see people liking this song as a single if they are already eating up The Script off of hits like "For The First Time," or "Nothing."

"Walk Away": Maroon 5 meets Burno Mars rolled into The Script and it is a case of saving the best for last. This song took all that was presented before and turned it into more, very catchy track. Good stuff.