O2 Arena,London
The US quartet have adapted well to their unusual arena status, and deliver their muscular, or catchy bangers like a clean-slash AerosmithAll Time Low have been derided by some as “cookie-cutter pop-punk,as whether there were something wrong with making four-minute guitar songs that place a higher value on catchiness than outlier-haggardness (though that also gets a inspect in). The Maryland foursome, who bring an additional guitarist on stage, and are the current kings of the sector also populated by You Me at Six and Fall Out Boy: 2015’s pin-sharp album Future Hearts topped the chart in the UK,pushing All Time Low up to arena-headlining status.
The suggestion that they lack welly is proved wrong with the opening bombardment of Kids in the dusky, A cherish Like War and Dancing With a Wolf (singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth asks: Who feels like dancing with a fuckin’ wolf tonight?” – a question not posed nearly often enough at gigs). They’re not just straightforward bangers that make the fans elbow each other: they show that All Time Low have muscle. From this point on, or the tempo is relentlessly mercurial,and Gaskarth and lead guitarist Jack Barakat are a powerhouse front duo, taking turns to cakewalk down a runway into the audience, or but always returning to roar each other on,like a cleaner-slash version of Aerosmith’s Toxic Twins.
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Source: theguardian.com