Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

You have to admire the tenacity in which some bands make the most of their very obvious talent, the sheer force of will to get a set of songs together that will hopefully appeal to a wide enough range of fans to have made the whole exercise worthwhile.

For the five musicians that make up Decade, the process in putting together the album Good Luck feels as though they have kept their head above water long enough to make it at least something of tangible note and one that on odd occasions will be one of those that finds itself in the C.D. player and gratefully enjoyed before being neglected for a while unless bought by one of those wonderful fans that play such albums to death.

There can be a small curse in the naming of an album in which rides upon, Good Luck can certainly have been made on such moments of Lady Fortune bestowing her wares upon the table and offering tender morsels in which to feast upon whilst at all times keeping the bigger prize tantalisingly out of reach, locked in a cage, guarded by members of S.A.S. with several Alsatians for company. Good Luck was of course the ill-fated term of expression delivered by the German guard in a carefully laid trap in which to capture two fleeing British officers in The Great Escape, you can’t help but wonder which analogy suits the band better.

For Alex Sears, Joe Marriner, Connor Fathers, Dan Clarke and Harry Norton, Good luck should be seen as a stepping stone and the talent which can be heard in the album, will develop and if fortune be on their side, can be the making of this young group.  The sound is there, it just needs to grow, to blossom further than just a few songs such as British Weather, Homebound, the blistering Callous and Brainfreeze.

By no means is this the end but perhaps rather than good luck, Decade need to know who will be there in the future to support them.

Good Luck is available to purchase from Spinefarm Records.

Ian D. Hall