Hundred Reasons - London Koko, 19/1/07
4/5
By: Matt Tomiak
Is it really almost half a decade ago since Hundred Reasons unleashed their debut album?
Despite promising much and receiving accolades galore back in '02 with their debut 'Ideas Above Our Station', a sadly underrated and underperforming follow-up ('Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge') resulted in Colin Doran and co being dropped by label Sony. Their third LP 'Kill Your Own' making the smallest of blips on the critical radar; the band's invigorating, big-chorused emo roar seemingly having fallen out of popular favour as the noughties reached their mid-way point.
Known for their dynamic live performances back in the day, what kind of form does early 2007 find the Aldershotcolossal as ever it were. Opening with the industrial rumble of 'Broken Hands', it's apparent that the boys haven't lost the hunger of yore, brimming with gusto and infectious zeal for their craft. The sky-scraping choruses of 'What You Get' and 'If I Could' sound epic tonight, such tunes threatening to tear the roof off of this venerable indie temple. Meanwhile, the evening's highlight- the mammoth HR breakthrough single 'I'll Find You' (new bands take note: that is precisely how you announce a presence on the scene) is as stirring as it seemed back in Rockfeedback's late adolescence. quintet in? Well, it's as animated, rousing and just bloody
'I WANNA SEE YOU JUMP THE F**K UP AND DOWN!!" yells Doran by means of introducing it. He doesn't have to tell anybody twice. Gleaming set-closer 'Falter' provides a lustrous, stirring curtain-call, allowing us to reflect on just how quickly the past five years have passed.
So here's to Hundred Reasons: for re-invigorating a generation of twenty-somethings, in addition to re-introducing us to the pleasures of the protruding body parts of strangers jabbing us incessantly and almost passing out through a lack of oxygen as a result.
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