The Bigger Lights - Fiction Fever EP
The Bigger Lights
Fiction Fever EP
Doghouse Records [2008]
Rating: 6.5
While pop-punk may be a term too frequently flung around these days and too little resembling anything near punk, it’s a genre that is flooded with bands ready to market themselves to the next group of someteens. Frequently these bands seem to resemble one another so closely that if a few were to trade names it would likely go unnoticed. However that said, what does set a few of these bands apart from the crowd is there natural ability to create a full and polished sound that not only lends it self to sing-alongs but has an edge to it that begs to be cut loose from it’s pop-punk moniker.
This is the sound that has launched the careers of acts like Fall Out Boy and Hit The Lights. This is the sound that has found it’s way to The Bigger Lights’, Fiction Fever EP. The six song EP is one that finds it’s strength early on and doesn’t let up. Once cozied up to the idea of such an album a listener is only let down by the mere fact that this is an EP which then leads to the ongoing hope that The Bigger Lights will be able to recreate such a sound across an entire LP.
