Being familiar with previous work of this band, I was keen to hear how their sound has grown since their 2007 release of the E.P ‘The Birds and the Bees’. ‘Castles’ is an E.P full of high quality songs that were designed to get you dancing and is a showcase for how the band has matured and therefore found and focused in on their own sound.

E.P opener ‘Brain’ is an undeniably catchy example of what Tonight Is Goodbye are capable of. The band have the appeal of a southern ‘Arctic Monkeys’ with a delightful summer spin due to their upbeat, clean guitar lines and lyrics of straight up social commentary. For this reason and the recent success of their peers such as The Wombats, they have the potential to do very well for themselves. The majority of the songs on ‘Castles’ are the A&R man’s dream; short, snappy, incredibly catchy and therefore, extremely marketable with massive appeal. The offbeat guitar of ‘Lucky Boy’ could get even the most reluctant of dancers moving or at least tapping a foot whereas the rhythmic reliant bridge section of ‘Nobody Cares’ is as close as this band will get to whipping a crowd into a mosh pit. Both of these songs are examples of the bi-polar appeal of this band, as one listen to ‘Castles’ displays just how skilled Tonight is Goodbye are as songwriters.

The closing track (which is also the title track) further demonstrates this upon being much more of a low key and mellow song that still warrants it’s place on the E.P by nicely rounding off this release. With songs this catchy that are just simply so good, it would be unfair to say that Tonight Is Goodbye don’t deserve to be massive, NOW!