TTL have produced themselves a decent five track EP full of tight melodic songs with a hard edge that adds justice to the songs. Time To Live rate themselves as an Alternative rock band which gives them carte blanche to be anything they want and with this offering they are offering a serious tilt at the heavy side of mainstream with a clever and full sound that will appeal to the rock sophisticates.

Opening the EP with 'Armour Won't Save You' and a attention grabbing drum riff and some melodic keyboards giving a great platform for Andy to display his vocal styles and proving that this lad can sing, the song starts off with an atmosphere setting that soon builds up to an explosive rich layered tune that grows and grows into a memorable sound.
The second track 'Cavalcade' takes off where the first song ended, with a riff fuelled multi layered sound while the lyrics soar with melodic introspection adequately articulated by Hunt.

The third song consolidates the bands sound with more of the same but this time round Hunt injects a strong passionate feel into the song with his singing, 'Second Hand Wings' opens with a chunky heavy guitar riff which at first gave rise to the idea that the band have other ideas to play with, which they do but not in that direction as the guitar riff is killed off to bring us back to what went before but with a slow quick slow bounce to the song but still keeping it loud and heavy, while the final song 'embers' opens with a quite start with melodies and harmonies before bringing in the huge layered sound that in some ways drives out any atmospheric feelings replacing this with an overly loud chunky sound that has merit but perhaps the EP needed a contrasting sound to complete the finale.

Five decent songs intelligently crafted and a good EP to own, if they can continue to write with this quality and can inject a contrasting method to mix it up a bit they could be considered the finished article.

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