Chaser – Dreamers

I have to be totally honest when I say that Chaser are a band that haven’t graced my ears very often, in fact I’d be hard pushed to recall a song title or two, but they do have a sound that does normally get my ears pricked up.  So this is my opportunity to put the wrongs of my past listening habits right, especially that Dreamers is their 5th full length and possibly as we always say “their best”, and how would I even know this, if I haven’t been an avid follower, but lets pretend shall we (wink).

The most obvious thing that strikes you as you run through initial track ‘Fight Of Our Lives’, is the Rise Against/Bad Religion mash up of style, an anthem of unity that has all the cliches that come with it, but done in a Chaser way,

this seems to follow though a little into ‘2020’, it brings inequality and poverty to the fore, along with climate change, in fact all the important issues that need not to be forgotten about in the strange time that 2020 actually was.

As has already been admitted earlier, I haven’t grabbed enough of this band in recent times, so it does come as a revelation that, they are not a band to stick to the standard pop/punk melodic values throughout a whole full length, this feels like an album of two halves and a more political stand point in the first half, with ‘Signs Of Life’, ‘A New Direction’ and ‘The Ripper’ doing everything within their rock riff filled moments to rally to the cause. Part two is a much more personal, self assessment filled half, so what you don’t get with this is the “I got bored half way through” scenario.

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‘Dreamers’ the title track brings act two to a start, here we go with the more melodic Green Day, Sum 41 sound that still doesn’t lose any angst, makes for something that gives the whole album a lift above, stands it out from the masses. 

‘Break The Chain’ is the stand out song of the album, it holds a a sadness of lyric that still has hope, “The past won’t be forgotten but you’re stronger than your sorrow” are words that strike a chord, this wrapped up in a power pop box, is just unforgettable.  

To conclude, the journey through this album, is a one of familiarity, this being that musically it isn’t breaking down walls or setting the world on fire.  But what it does do, is moves through styles, keeps you interested, then lyrically has you feeling all the angst of youth, and all the emotion of growing up too.

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