Album
The Script
The Script
[88697361942]
Artist: The Script
Released: 11 August 2008
Catalogue number: BMG
Review
by Michael Quinn
01 August 2008
The Script is a tightly-knit three-piece – former R&B producers Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan, and one time session musician Glen Power – that has been garnering the sort of ecstatic write-ups in its native Dublin that makes you suspect the reviewers must be family, friends or fully paid-up members of the fan club. This reviewer is none of those things, and can declare that their eponymously titled debut album reveals a band that is fresh, vital and ferociously good.
Album opener and debut single We Cry has already been laying an increasingly gold-paved path for the threesome. O'Donoghue's vocals, falling somewhere between Bono, Morten Harket, Eminem and Justin Timberlake, finds crisply articulate support from Sheehan's pointedly precise guitar commentaries and Power's no less eloquent percussive underpinning.
While reports of them as 'a whole new brand of Celtic Soul', maybe overdoing it, their catholic approach does manage to entail hip-hop, pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art production and anthemic rock.
For evidence of such pluralism, Rusty Halo offers up an intriguingly bizarre amalgam of The Police, Rush and Huey Lewis, Talk You Down has more than a hint of David Gray about it, and album closer I'm Yours is the kind of bedsit ballad destined for moist-eyed lighters-in-the-air status. Break Even is a stadium-filling confessional that will lay waste to vast tracts of America in due course.
Second single, The Man Who Can't Be Moved, wipes the floor with Coldplay, tramples all over Travis and flushes Starsailor down the pan to position The Script as the next big thing in waiting.
Intelligent, beautifully crafted and compelling.
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manchester -han
hot! the script are like the best band euerr! and wat euer anyone else says theyy are!
Meme, Hull
Love it.
Vladica,Serbia
I heard `a man who can`t be moved` and I loved it,although I NEVER like song when I listen to it for the first time..I heard some other songs,too,but I will definitely download the whole album:)
Asp from Mauritius, Right now in Paris :p
I love the whole album, i listen to it like Everyday :p ... they r good!!
Stacey , cumbria
An amazing album from an amazing band! I can't to see them live..... I love the group :)
Nicola Simone, Hertfordshire
I think this is the best band around in a long time. I have their album and I love all the tracks on there. I have watched them (danny really!xx) on a few interviews and they come across as really nice lads and down to earth. They deserve all the success in the world!
Niccypoo's South Wales
I love this album so much :Dand the way the song relate to my life right now :)
Diane , Chichester
I bought this album and fell in love with the Script, then went to see them play in Portsmouth in October. They were amazing ! What was so great was the complete joy they had at the fact that so many people had turned out to see them and knew the lyrics and were singing them back. You could almost see Danny pinching himself to believe this is happening.... I wish them the best of everything and hope they get the success they so deserve !!
Monika, Germany
Great band!!
caz/gloucestershire
This album is just sensational, I bought it 5 days ago and have listened to nothing else since. Every song is fantastic, the singer has a great voice and i think they will go a long way.......keep up the truley fantastic fresh sound..
Annina, Finland
Absolutely fabulous! Just got the right feel to it... Hope to see them on a gig sometime soon!! :)
Lisa, Paisley
I love this band, their music is beautiful, one of the best bands with true talent in a while! Love all the songs on the album, couldn't just pick one!! Great job guys, keep it up! I can't wait to see them at the Barrowlands :)
Danny
best band ever.
Tina, London
Let's be honest, they're really good mainly because Danny O'Donoghue is gorgeous.
Renato,Romania
i`m listening htis album once a day minimum since 11aug :D
Leah, Kent
I love this album, "I'm yours" is the most beautiful song...If I was Famous I'd request the pleasure of a duet with these men....can't wait for the next Album!!!!
mimbaradi, Indonesia
Great album!keep up the good work!
Tiga, South Africa
This band's music is a breath of fresh air amidst the current climate of washed out mainstream pop / formulaic rock / hip hop tracks. has anybody noticed the similarity of the bass line / backing in 'the man who can't be moved' to maroon 5's 'must get out' as well as sting's 'if i ever lose my faith in you'? ...always wins 'em over ;) a personal, confessional album i highly recommend.
laura, manchester
i lluurrvv the script going to c them in concert they re my fav band and im onli 14 hehe i have the album too wwooooo!!!!! im outa here
Lauren, HUDDERSFIELD!
Great band,,great album (:
Sam Peely From Bushfield aged 15
I am in love with this song I think its amazing lol and wicked lol :-D X
Paul & Ed, Surrey
We have just heard the album for the first time, and are well impressed and heard it for a second time around, we thoroughly enjoyed it and we could hear sounds like Sting, Pink, Keane and a few other sounds within. We find it quite refreshing and definitely NOT depressing unlike Coldplay. As for Paul, Essex, he obviously must have a hearing problem.... Big time!
Poundra-Indonesia
I like listen to this song when I wake up in the morning. I cant help being hopelessly romantic after that. Their lyric is so simple and genuine. It gives warm feelin on my tummy.
Barry, Ireland
and The Thrills got panned for trying to sound too american and these idiots are a Maroon 5 tribute act. Rubbish.
Jon Nottingham
My favourite album of the year so far. And How dare you guys compare them with Coldplay. Coldplay are my least fave band EVER and The Script are far from Coldplay.
Zoe, Your Garden!:P
OMG THE SCRTIPT ARE THE BEST I LOVE ALL THERE SONGS!!!:O :D
Nicole, england
I lovee this album! Everysong is great!! well done and keep it uptothe script guys!!! ilove them and theirs songs!! Buy the allbum youwont regret a thing!!xxx <3
ALAN, TYNE & WEAR
STING SOUND-ALIKE, THE NEW POLICE, TIP-TOP MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leigh, Ayr
Breakeven has to be the best song along with If You See Kay. going to see them at Glasgow Barrowland hopefully! Can't wait totally amazing band, and Danny is hot =]
Tim, Preston
The last thing this country needed was another Coldplay that is even worse than them! Recession? This album is more like the Great Depression!
Tiggle,London
Re Paul and Mark,Essex:So what instruments do you play?Can you sing?Do you have any musical talent?This band are far from mediocre,unlike your musical tastes.Superb album,one of the best I have heard in over 20 years.
Rachel,Selby
the man who can't be moved is amazing
tom ablott, nootingham
we cry is a great song and has a goodvocal rang on the track but the man who cant be mved is out standing and imalways singing it
Amy, Kent
Breakeven and The Man Who Cant Be Moved are by far the best on the track, i give this album 9/10 :D
Lisa,. Glasgow
Tickets on sale today at 9.30!!I am sat by the phone!!!
Paul, Essex
Boring, bland and instantly forgettable. How can a album such mediocrity make it to the top of the charts!
Ryan. N.ireland
I duno, 'the man who cant be moved' aint guna get dat girl back, if she sees dat lad sittin at the corner of the street she is more likely to turn back on her tracks and sprint home were it is safe... Yea... i hope hes still not there his mum must be worried sick.
GillyBee, Perth
I just loved them from the first listen to their first single! Can't wait to see them live!
kimberley from liverpool
this is ace man that danny is fit great music keep going well done
Mark, Essex
The Man Who Can't Be Moved is a bland tedious song. Are your reviewers listening to the same track?
mark, london
amazing! keep up the good work. just bought the album and love everything about it!! :)
hannah, aberdeen
absolutely love this album!!
Joyce, Glasgow
An amazing album from an amazing band! I can't to see them live.....
Donna, Bristol
I love The Script i think they have put real meaning into their music and its really touching great!
lal, Loftus
Absolutely brilliant. Can't wait to see them live.
Ken, Manila
Amazing album! I heard the album samples and they are phenomenal. I want to ship their albums from the UK!!! :))
hobo, park
Amazing!