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Formation has released their debut album Look At The Powerful People; a fast-paced, genre-bending record that will make you, yourself, feel like a powerful person. Not many people can say let me make a record that riles peoples’ inner revolutionary because, frankly, it takes personal courage to inspire others. Now I am not saying that Formation is Joan of Arc, but the London-based quintet are a set of personalities that question how far people would go to defend their faith, especially in themselves. Would you rather burn for your faith or have it burn you instead?

Formation – A Friend (Official Video)

A Friend

Look At The Powerful People tussles between the debaucheries of life that can distract you from your greatness like “Drugs” or “Pleasure”, or the nostalgia of always looking to “Back Then”. These tracks do well to lyrically elaborate the seedy and shimmering distractions that take you out of the present: from living in the past to just not being in your body. For songs like these, Formation arranges instrumentals that give a modern “Welcome To The Jungle” vibe. There sound is not exactly blasting noises of 80’s punk-rock, although it does have such influences along with hits of funkadelia resonating through tracks like “On The Board” and “Buy And Sell” . Yet, Formation does give the era’s immediate, loud aesthetic/ statement that society has lost its way, and Formation are a batch of guys trying to decide if they become as numb as society or emotionally revolt. Swindling between his boisterous playfulness and his more spiritual emotiveness, Will Ritson becomes a Millennial Axl Rose in exuding the struggles to want to be better than the society that raised him but also want to be apart of it.

Formation – Powerful People (Official Video)

Powerful People

Songs such as, “Ring”, “A Friend”, “Gods”, and, of course, “Powerful People”, further Formation’s initiative to see through social distractions that block personal healing. It could be why these songs have a sweeter, more twilighted pace and approach. This is not say they lose their rocking edge or “in your face” style because Formation always keeps a drum kicking and guitar melodies either blasting or winding in what seems to be a stringed cry. Still, when you are going clear, life seems a little more pronounced and even beautiful such as in “Blood Red Hand”; where to combat the darker tones of their surroundings, Formation brings dreamier instrumentals and even lyrics like, “you can meet me in the meadow”. With Ritson leading as, again, a vocalist that perfectly balances the dividing idea of anarchy’ as a desire for wildness and a feeling of being confined by it. For how strict society is in its ruling; it oddly feels savage for it; as if laws can block greatness rather than protect it. Thus, Formation’s Look At The Powerful People feels like a sonic call for every listener to empower his or herself. For More Information On Formation And To Buy Look At The Powerful People Click Here.

Formation – Pleasure (Official Video)

Pleasure