The album starts off with a slow build up on ‘I Work Nights and You Work Days’. It’s a beautiful beginning with vocals just left against piano, a basic start but it is a lovely beginning. Following on with ‘Cold Skin’, another slow start before drums and guitar kick in for the chorus. Songs such as ‘Funeral’ showcase perfectly the heartfelt and well written lyrics which feature throughout the album.

The title track is short and down tempo with just vocals and acoustic guitar. Lead singer Ralph Pelleymounter has such a wonderful and unique voice so the band can get away with the vocals being left to stand on their own so much. They are a band who have a brilliant weapon in their lead singer’s voice so tracks like ‘Besides She Said’ and the gentle ‘Children Who Start Fires’ just sound wonderful.

Touring as much as To Kill A King has and releasing EP’s before the debut has served this band well, helping them build a solid fan base and giving them plenty of experience to craft 13 tracks of wonderful music that flows so well.

‘Fictional State’ progresses from low deep bass to a poppy and upbeat second verse and then an epic ending of fast, intense drumming and brass instruments. Finishing up with 5 minute long ‘Letters To My Lover The Dylan Fan’, padding drums and plucked guitar strings build up into a grand moment of quicker drumbeats and strumming guitar. The tempo falls again and the album ends the same way it started: slow, gentle and fading out into silence.

A stunning debut album from a band that fully deserve all the success that this record will inevitably bring them.