If only the quality of this album could stand up the strength of bullets like this Danny character, but Bullets Can’t Kill Danny‘s debut album The War to Come, has more than a few bullet holes in its supposed armor. 
The album does get better as it goes along, but the first half of the album is weak. The husky vocals of Skylar Kilborn awkwardly rest against the instrumentation. The lyrics are very repetitive on this entire album, but the repetition especially stands out on these first few numbers. I suggest jumping ahead to the “Interlude” if you want a little more variety in your life.
“Jesse” continues a lyrical trend about drinking and the story progression in this song makes me think a little more about a country scene than a rock scene. What I really like about this song are the additions of the female backing vocals. The harmony continues to get more interesting on “Woah Yeah” as Kilborn sings, “With a broken heart, alone in the dark I cry,” and the backing vocals provide an answer of “Woahs.” Drummer Logan Grime provides some of his more interesting variations to this song as well.
“Can’t Make It Back” is their most experimental song on the album and the effects of an announcer is used on this mostly instrumental track. “Deadly Man’s Cologne” takes the album into the direction of southern rock and “With Snow” brings the group back to their Against Me! sound.
The album ends with an “Outro” that takes the main theme of “With Snow” and repeats it with some fuzz, giving the effect that the whole time the listener was listening to a vinyl record that just got stuck on this last track.
Bullets Can’t Kill Danny‘s debut album The War to Come was released November 7, 2008.
Tracklisting:
01. Paint This Town
02. Fourth of July
03. Come On Come On
04. Lord Knows I Try
05. Interlude (Let Your Hair Hang Down)
06. Jesse
07. Woah Yeah
08. Can’t Make It Back
09. Deadly Man’s Cologne
10. With Snow
11. Outro
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Written by: Bethany
