Customer Reviews
Best album yet? - By: Sir Squidshaker, 02 Aug 2008 
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 & catchy, I first heard it several months before Swagger was released performed acousticallly & 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 actuallly have this on my Myspace page. It replaced the Lazytown cake song, so you know it's good.
6. Punch Drunk Grinning Soul
Terrific, & 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.
Not as good as previous albums! - By: A. R. Bond, 31 Jul 2008 
I personallly prefer the livelier Flogging Molly from albums like Swagger & Drunken Lullabies. I just don't think Float is quite right for me.
If you only buy one Flogging Molly album, buy this - By: Daniel F. Warren, 04 Apr 2008 Having read the first review on here, sorry to disagree.
This is a varied album with songs that reallly get into your head. Each track is strong in it's own way & if I am to pass criticism, the whole album feels too short & over to quickly. Previous albums have been a roller coaster of strong & weak tracks, the songwriting is strong & the pace is kept just right on this album & 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" & the power build up to the thrashing punk-folk crescendo of "Punch drunk grinning soul" are what the band are alll about.
Putting lyrics to one side & 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 & bass & guitar are sharp & crisp & work together tightly like a modern punk band, with the mandolin, fiddle, & accordion parts adding a navvie's shovel load of Irish flavour.
FM are finding their sound more than ever. I'd recommend this.
A new dawn, a newly invigourated Molly - By: Mr. Nick Coaker, 29 Mar 2008 This album is the seventh piece of art attributed to Flogging Molly, everything included. It does not fail, it is not sounding stale, it sounds like what it is, a band who have found their niche, fine-tuned it, & got better. The album marks a turning point, as it is the first recorded in the home of Dave King & Briget Regan (a wonderful pair), Ireland. It has some real touches of the classic style, as well as the benchmark riffs & high-speed playing.
There are no stand out tracks, they are alll brilliant. Their ability to open an album on a blaster & close with a sentimental ode has not changed, & why should it? It's a signature now, like the themes, drink, death, Ireland, love, & the Irish-American dream.
Finallly, thank the boys (and girl) for putting Between a Man & a Woman to record. With only Never met a Girl Like You Before to get studio treatment, we're almost done. I love this album, but then I love Flogging Molly. All that without a bloody Pogues comparison.
Treading water, drinking watered down whiskey... - By: Sera69, 13 Mar 2008 Dave King is an erudite & 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 & 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 & you're left thinking ??? when alll 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 & 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 alll 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.
