Album Review

Album Review- The Wanted 'Battleground'

'Battleground' is the boys second album to date and is filled with pop classics and songs ranging from extremly slow ballads to up-beat dance tracks.
The album includes their top single 'Glad You Came' which went triple platinum in America and straight to number one in the UK. Their other popular singles 'Lightening' and comic relief single 'Gold Forever' also feature on the album. However 'Warzone' (which is their latest single to be presented on the album) was one of their only singles to be co-written by two of the band members; Nathan Sykes and Max George. With other boybands such as JLS and One Direction in the charts, it is sometimes hard for The Wanted to have a unique selling point in the music industry although 'Battleground' features songs with a much more edgier sounding then your everyday pop song. 'Lie To Me' is a great example of this and 'Last To Know' is also another slightly darker midtempo track with emotional lyrics. Nearly every song on the album is fairly catchy, while the ballads prove that the boys have great vocals.
Overall, the album contains a mixture of songs which continue to show off their elctro-pop sound and will not disappoint.