There are many ingredients to a good song. A catchy hook, an engaging chorus, a potential sing-along, great musicianship and thought provoking lyricism. Let me get the record straight here in the opening paragraph so this doesn't come as a huge surprise to anyone by the time they reach the end, and that is that Start a Fire doesn't really have any of these things in any real abundance.
Don't get me wrong. You don't have to have all of those ingredients in order to make a great song, but when they're all missing, then you're left with a fairly uninteresting three and a half minutes in which nothing of particular note actually happens, which is a shame, because Futures, for lack of a better pun, have been thrown around as a future big hitter in the rock world.
I know Futures are better than this. I have heard better from them than this. Maybe that's why I'm being so hard on it.
Musically, it's fine. A repetitive single-note chord-following bass and guitar combo with occasional twangy counter-melody is technically fine, and sometimes can be very effective, but on this occasion, combined with the bored sounding lead vocals (apart from a nice shouty “Fire” bridge) means this song is destined to live in the “solid, but uninspiring” category for all eternity. In fact, if you want a song that sounds a bit like this that isn't half as dull, check out “Sing it Out” by Hope of the States and see how they did it.
“Start a Fire”? There isn't even much of a spark.
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Don't get me wrong. You don't have to have all of those ingredients in order to make a great song, but when they're all missing, then you're left with a fairly uninteresting three and a half minutes in which nothing of particular note actually happens, which is a shame, because Futures, for lack of a better pun, have been thrown around as a future big hitter in the rock world. 
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