Feature: Kyoto Drive - 'This Is All We Ever Wanted' Track By Track Guide

Later this month Birmingham's Kyoto Drive release their debut album 'This Is All We Ever Wanted'. It is a record that shows how the band has developed and progressed, with us here at Alter The Press! giving it a 4 out of 5 review.

With the release date just round the corner, we thought it'd be ideal for the lads from Kyoto Drive to give us a track-by-track breakdown of the record.

1. Transitions
Adam: When writing this song we had intentions very early on of it being the first song on the album. We wanted it to be something you could rock out to with one fist in the air, a pint in the other hand, singing at the top of your lungs with all your best mates. The lyrics to the song are about the transition that we had each gone through from our old bands to Kyoto Drive, quite fitting for the first song on our debut album I thought.

Mark: For a long time I actually didn’t like this song much, we had all said that we wanted a song that was in your face and dirty sounding for the start of the album, but to me it never felt like that, until we started laying the vocals down. Then I started to hear what the other guys were hearing and it quickly grew on me.

Mike: I remember wanting to have the first song on the album hit you and grab your attention from the start and I think we achieved just that with this song. It’s always a fun song to play live, it has loads of energy and I think is a great opening track.

Chris: This song for me, when we wrote it, was supposed to be a good fast hard hitting song just to start the album off. Personally I think we achieved what we wanted. The bit I love about this song is the break down where it is only Mark and I playing.

Album Review: Kyoto Drive - This Is All We Ever Wanted

First of all I want to start off this review, by apologising to the band for taking so long to write this review. 'This Is All We Ever Wanted' was recorded last summer, sent to me in October and left on my desk till December, which is unfortunate because this Birmingham pop-punk 4 piece have came on leaps and bounds since their 'Spotlights and Stars' EP.

From the start 'This Is All We Ever Wanted' sounds more confident and broader, as 'Transitions' is upbeat and fierce and leads nicely into 'I'd Give It All', a song which was first heard on our Autumn/Winter 2009 compilation a few months back and has good blend of light-heavy guitars and strong vocal melodies from Adam Binder, along with occasional 'woah-oh-oh'.