“Trouble” is the most ambitious and experimental song-and it works, it shocks, it wins you over. The louder rock songs, including, “Trouble,” “Cheers” and “Empire to Ashes” are the highlights of the album. There's not a single screamed vocal on the album, although the bridge of “Chase” comes close. Gossip is split between riff-heavy, Royal Blood-esque rock–and–roll songs and a set of acoustic–driven radio ballads. The band has gone in a slightly different direction, but hasn't gone far enough. Its follow–up, Gossip, which still echoes the style of Madness, does not do as much or do it as well. The band successfully incorporated pop sensibilities into hard–hitting rock. The precursor to this year’s major label debut Gossip, 2015’s Madness was a fully realized, diverse and cohesive album.
After making an album that firmly cemented them as a post–hardcore band, their sound has been inching towards a more pop–influenced rock style. From Serial Productions and The New York Times comes The Trojan Horse Affair: a mystery in eight parts.It seems like everything Sleeping with Sirens does is a departure from their debut album, 2010’s With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear-if you believe they’ve “sold out,” it would be hard to pinpoint exactly when they did. Together they team up to investigate: Who wrote the Trojan Horse letter? They quickly discover that it’s a question people in power do not want them asking. Because through all the official inquiries and heated speeches in Parliament, no one has ever bothered to answer a basic question: Who wrote the letter? And why? The night before Hamza is to start journalism school, he has a chance meeting in Birmingham with the reporter Brian Reed, the host of the hit podcast S-Town. To Hamza Syed, who is watching the scandal unfold in his city, the whole thing seemed … off. By the time it all dies down, the government has launched multiple investigations, beefed up the country’s counterterrorism policy, revamped schools and banned people from education for the rest of their lives. The story soon explodes in the news and kicks off a national panic. The plot has a code name: Operation Trojan Horse. A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate the city’s schools.
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