Almost a year since a career defining performance at Reading/Leeds festival last year, Don Broco have played support slots to Futures, The Used and Four Year Strong, performed at the Slam Dunk, Takedown and Hit The Deck Festivals, and now released their eagerly anticipated debut full length album. The Bedford boys set the bar high with their 'Big Fat Smile EP' but 'Priorities' impressively delivers far beyond the expectation.
Despite already hearing title track 'Priorities' as a previously released single, the opening riff prepares you for the album immediately, and the daring yet refreshingly British vocals are one of the attributes we have already grown to love about Don Broco. 'Hold On' and 'Whole Truth' introduce a funky swing to the unique Broco sound before 'Fancy Dress' picks the pace up with a killer outro sure to involve Bobby Damiani in the centre of the wall of death for years to come.
If you're looking for big choruses then look no further than 'Back In The Day' which is as crowd friendly as it gets, and 'Let's Go Back To School' has radio play written all over it while giving an insight into the band's University life. Final track and latest single 'Actors' [sadly] closes one of the albums of the year with Don Broco at their finest - a cleverly structured song with well placed back up vocals that will keep you jumping throughout.
'Priorities' packs more of a punch than David Haye, and there seems to be no stopping this band. Expect their return to Reading/Leeds to be packed, support slots to shortly become headline tours, and with the album sitting at #25 in the charts, don't write off a commercial mainstream success either.
9/10
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