Band: Kids In Glass Houses
Album title: In Gold Blood
Label: Roadrunner Records
Distributor: CNR – Concreteweb Promotion Office
Release date: 15/08/2011
Release: CD

Kids in Glass Houses is a Welsh rock band from Cardiff England. In it’s early days of existence, the quintet had a series of support slots during late 2006 and early 2007, playing alongside big names like 30 Seconds To Mars, The Goo Goo Dolls, Manic Street Preachers, The Lost Prophets and many more.

Gaining success and fans at that point, the band got a record deal with Roadrunner Records in 2008 and never left it. So yes, I really was looking forward to checking this one out. The band has changed their style in a slightly different direction that their previous records, for example on this one they added some synthesizers here and there. And of course they went a little softer (not much but still noticeable).

Their sound is a little more indie rock this time, but there is still a bi chunk of rock n roll, with here and there some punk influences. So the roots are still there but expanded more on their foundations than some fans will appreciate. Overall, this is a not a bad album, it’s kind of a statement of what and who they want to be, and the direction they want to go.

79/100

Jeroen.