Ally Carnwath 

The Script: No Sound Without Silence review – stadium rock lacking in substance

The Irish rockers’ chest-beating fourth set is slick yet empty, writes Ally Carnwath
  
  

The Script, CD review
Danny O'Donoghue of the Script: 'every lyric is directed towards an imagined sea of mobile phones'. Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Redferns via Getty Images Photograph: Daniel Boczarski/Redferns via Getty Images

There’s a close symbiosis between the chest-beating music of Irish behemoths the Script and the pop-rock theatre of their live shows. Their fourth album, recorded on tour, sometimes immediately after coming offstage, blurs the distinction further; every hook is seemingly written with a choreographed stadium pose to match, every lyric directed towards an imagined sea of mobile phones. It’s efficiently done of course, and shifts mood smoothly from the jaunty Dublin knees-up of Paint the Town Green to string-laden sob rock on Without Those Songs. But like the pseudo-profundity of its title, it amounts to very little.

 

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