Track Listing

1. Requiem For A Dying Song
2. Paddy's Lament
3. Float
4. You Won't Make A Fool Out Of Me
5. Lightning Storm
6. Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
7. Us Of Lesser Gods
8. Between A Man And A Woman
9. On The Back Of A Broken Dream
10. Man With No Country
11. Story So Far

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3009 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-14
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
This fourth album from the Californian Celts is their follow-up to 2004's 'Within A Mile Of Home' and is the first to be recorded in singer Dave King's native Ireland and with co-producer Ryan Hewitt (Motion City Soundtrack, Madina Lake). Much closer in spirit to the Pogues than the pop-punk with Celtic embellishments which comprises the bulk of the "Celticpunk" scene, the band pause periodically to insert a matureand contemplative moment into their breakneck Irish folk.

Customer Reviews

Best album yet?
Although Swagger comes close, Float has instantly become my favourite FM album. I pray the next one is this classy.

1. Requiem For A Dying Song:
This track is powerful and catchy, I first heard it several months before Swagger was released performed acoustically and loved it. Hard hitting, but some might say a little 'greenday', of course, those people need their ears checked.

2. (No More) Paddy's Lament
I'm still debating whether their label got the apostrophe right on "Paddy's" but with a song this good it's hard to care.

3. Float
A slow acoustic number, stays with you long after you stop listening to it.

4. You Won't Make A Fool Out Of Me
I didn't like this one as much as some of the others, but still a hit in the Squidshaker camp.

5. Lightning Storm
Probably my favourite, the accordion is right on the money. I actually have this on my Myspace page. It replaced the Lazytown cake song, so you know it's good.

6. Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
Terrific, and the best name of an FM song since 'The worst day since yesterday'. Top notch, rather bitter tune.

7. Us Of Lesser Gods
The sweet soulful number, lots of panpipes/flute.

8. Between A Man And A Woman
I don't quite like the lyrics of this, but the instruments are amongst the best on the album. Can't complain!

9. On The Back Of A Broken Dream
By far the best Chorus on the album without contest. Sample this song if you're still unsure, you may be wooh'd over.

The other two tracks are brilliant. Pick up a copy now.

If you only buy one Flogging Molly album, buy this
Having read the first review on here, sorry to disagree.

This is a varied album with songs that really get into your head. Each track is strong in it's own way and if I am to pass criticism, the whole album feels too short and over to quickly. Previous albums have been a roller coaster of strong and weak tracks, the songwriting is strong and the pace is kept just right on this album and there are there is no loss of momentum leaving the listener reaching for the skip button.

True the opening lyric to the album "there's a government whip cracked across your back" is a bit of a cringer, but after this the lyrics get better, making perfect sense on many songs, but the raw emotion of "Float" and the power build up to the thrashing punk-folk crescendo of "Punch drunk grinning soul" are what the band are all about.

Putting lyrics to one side and talking about the sound of the band collectively, the hardest thing for Flogging Molly to do is to step out of the shadow of their influences. Float, more than any other album drives them in a direction further away from their obvious Pogues influence. The drums and bass and guitar are sharp and crisp and work together tightly like a modern punk band, with the mandolin, fiddle, and accordion parts adding a navvie's shovel load of Irish flavour.

FM are finding their sound more than ever. I'd recommend this.

Treading water, drinking watered down whiskey...
Dave King is an erudite and obviously intelligent soul but he's trying far too hard to squeeze his education into the good time Oirish punk rock Flogging Molly produce.

He takes well worn cliches, gives them a twist and fails. Adding a spin or trying to create new ones just drags the whole Flogging Molly experience down. It's something that has hampered every Molly album, just as you're getting into it a lyric jars and you're left thinking ??? when all you want is simple heartfelt passion.

That said, if you like their previous stuff you'll enjoy this, it's by no means a bad album but don't expect a 'Black Friday Rule' or 'Rebels of the Sacred Heart' or even a 'Tobacco Island'. It's a pale shadow compared to anything from 'Drunken Lullabies' or 'Swagger'.

I love Flogging Molly but Dave King has to stop trying; Drink yer Guinness, down yr whiskey and don't start recording the next Molly album until you can't stand up/yr mind's a blank... Because what Flogging Molly need is a dunderheaded thug roaring "My heart belongs to Ireland" or "I'll never hurt you Molly, my love. Not again" with that wry Shane MacGowen glance askance that tells us all that, soon as the little woman's put out, she'll feel the back of my hand! (And she, bless her, will love her man no matter what.) I'm talking passion; rightly or wrongly.

They don't need another album of borrowed cliches.