1. Rise
2. Beauty Queen **
3. Let Me Out **
4. Carry On **
5. Find Me An Angel
6. I Am Who I Am
7. Home
8. Bad Dream **
9. Live
10. God By Another Name **
11. Har­mon­ica In F (Interlude) **
12. Time **

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The whole album is very mellow, and I could almost class it as an ‘easy-listening’ but it doesn’t quite fit. The songs all fea­ture a slightly slower beat, and there is emphases on strong musi­cal usage. The singing is put almost as a second thought, much like the way that The Strokes per­form their music. The music comes before the singing, but they don’t con­flict. There is heavy usage of the piano, which stands out as the major player within most of the tracks. The lyrics are well-​written and exe­cuted, and anyone can find mean­ing in them. The singing reminds me a lot of Cold­play or Snow Patrol, as they are a little grainy, and full of emotion.

The whole album has a near-​sad feel to it, mainly due to con­tri­bu­tions from cer­tain tracks (Bad Dream and I Am Who I Am come to mind). As a result I don’t sug­gest lis­ten­ing to “Beta Male Fairytales” if you’re in a low, unless you feel like throw­ing your­self fur­ther into despair. It’s not even the lyrics that really do it, but the mood of the songs

One prob­lem I have with the album (which is a prob­lem with many albums of a sim­i­lar nature) is that I can only listen to it once through before I start to get sick of it. This is not a CD that you can leave on repeat in the back­ground, as it will start to feel very repet­i­tive. Every track does start to feel like every other on the CD as you con­tinue to listen to it. It’s def­i­nitely an album where favorites will be picked, and the other tracks skipped for the rest if their existence.

Over­all, a very calm, almost sad album with heavy piano use and won­der­ful lyrics. It’s worth a listen to, even if you only come away with three songs that you like. In the end you’ll love those tracks dearly.

7/10