'Wonderland' is guitar-pop superstars McFly's second album. Continuing in the same vein as their debut long-player, this album is a pleasant mix of rock and pop influences ranging from The Beatles to Green Day via Wet Wet Wet. Includes the single 'It'll Be Ok'.

Aug 2005

McFly are the pop ambassadors you can be proud of. With an astonishing run of Number Ones, awards and sold-out arena dates under their low-riding belt they’re one of the few pop success stories of the last few years. It’s not hard to hear why on their new album ‘Wonderland’, which stakes out new ground with the band’s evolving sound, drawing classic references from The Beatles, The Who and 10CC to craft a thoroughly modern pop classic.

From the opening bars of ‘I’ll Be OK’, which forms the perfect bridge from their debut ‘Room On The Third Floor’, with its deliciously hook-laden melodies, to the big pop tune of ‘Ultraviolet’ and the all-guns-blazing hard-rocking ‘I Wanna Hold You’, ‘Wonderland’ is an album that packs a punch with choruses bigger than Planet Earth, and more zest and spunk than any band around right now. The development of McFly’s artistry is further explored on tracks like ‘Too Close For Comfort’, a tale of the messy disintegration of a stalled relationship with a blindingly poignant musical backdrop, on the epic ‘She Falls Asleep’, with its grand orchestration, and on album closer ‘Memory Lane’, which clocks in at almost five minutes of storming, old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll tunesmithery.

With ‘Wonderland’, McFly exhibit the growth and maturity that many bands dare not explore so early on in their careers. Complimented by lush orchestration, killer melodies and finely crafted lyricism, ‘Wonderland’ shows no sign of “the difficult second album syndrome”, but signposts a very bright future for the talented McFly.

UK pop quartet McFly burst on to the chart scene with a fresh twist on the boy band formula, they played their instruments! They wrote their own material! Lead vocalist and chief songwriter Tom Fletcher originally tried out for Busted, but when he was beaten to the position by Charlie Simpson the band's management held further auditions to form a new outfit centred around him. The links between the two bands were cemented when Fletcher contributed material for Busted b-sides, and the two bands toured together in 2003. The invaluable exposure from the tour helped push McFly's debut single, "5 Colours In Her Hair" to the top of the UK singles chart where it was promptly joined by debut full length ROOM ON THE 3RD FLOOR. Follow-up effort, WONDERLAND, matched that achievement and in 2006 they moved into the movies, starring alongside Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan in the film JUST MY LUCK.