The Getaway Plan – Dark Horses

Originally published on Alt Media

After almost five years, the alternative rockers from Melbourne return with what is potentially their best offering to date.

Tonally this album is dark and emotionally charged, particularly in the lines “you carried the weight of the world, but you never speak a word” and “there’s pain in my heart that you’ll never know.”

That’s not to say that the album is depressing in anyway, the band manages to convey an underlying happiness reflecting upon their own meteoric rise and an enduring hope for the future as they laugh in the face of the recent troubles.

Vocally, Matthew Wright echoes Coheed and Cambria at times, particularly during title track Dark Horses.

Despite losing steam and brief lulls towards the end of the record this is emo-pop-rock at its best.

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