While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets is the debut album from Cobra Starship. The introduction track (one of many with intriguingly long
titles,) is a red herring in assuming what the rest of the album is going to be like.
While th opening track is acoustic, solo and solemn, the second track slices the so-far-calm feeling with electro synths and (the equally long
titled) Send My Love To The Dancefloor I’ll See You In Hell (Hey Mister DJ) progresses into a racy, energetic track which really begins the album. This track is reminiscent of The Music and, as the rest of the album remains faithful to, Panic! At The Disco. (Is it a coincidence that Panic! are also on Fuelled By Ramen Records?)
The album features Bring It, from the film Snakes On A Plane. Although it is designed to be a theme song, as a result it is far too ‘cheesy’ to listen to out of the original intended context. Unfortunately, the following song The Ballad Of Big Poppa And Diamond Girl continues the essence of cheesy songs, as it sounds like something worthy of a shopping centre in the mid ‘90s.
As a whole, the album is fun and energetic, but is probably only going to appeal to those audiences who sulkily rejoice at the prospect of My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco and Fall Out Boy. There is a lack of depth to the songs and after listening a few times, it seems that they lack definition. It is, in fact, a shame that more aspects of the introduction song aren’t seen throughout the rest of the album.
