The Mules - Save Your Face Album Review

The Mules
Save Your Face
Album Review

The Mules release their new album High and Mighty. This five-piece from Oxford hold a new kind of style, that is somewhat unique. The Mules do posses a different factor and seem to have a great energy in every track.

The thing is that they don't hold any sort of style behind what they actually do. They have the odd good song, but the odd good song on what is a fifteen-track album is really nothing to shout about. The opening track 'Polly-O' is by far the best track on the album. This song has the stop start to it, but at the same time is just such a high-energy track. 'Save Your Face', the title track, continues the standard with what is a fast rock track. Once you get past the third or fourth track then it is like every track sounds the same and before you know it you are on track seven. When you get to this, it is definitely different from any of the other tracks. 'Live Feed' is a slow track, but depressing, not depressing musically, it perhaps just doesn't sit right on the album. 'Tule Lake Shuffle' has a comical feel. With the music side of it all it needs is someone like Freddie Starr to sing one of his funny melodies.

The Mules have the potential in them, but instead of hitting us with the fifteen songs on the album, they should look to do ten really good songs. It's just shame a lot of the album does sound so samey.

Mark Moore