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Brian Ivory
Jazz-Metal and everything in between and back again. There are only two Genres good & bad 😆
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On first listen I was taken back by how soft this album was vocal wise it's not until track 9 "Burn" that we get harsh screamed vocals and a great song it is too.
Music wise this is I wouldn't say soft but maybe more laidback and reminded me of a band say like Trivium in places (I mean this in a good way as the production also is flawless)
It definitely plays like an album with two sides having all the clean vocals songs at the start and the harsh vocal songs at the end, it would be great in vinyl I hear you say? Well this is where we run into the problem with this album........
While its not a bad album (in fact at times its brilliant) it's that there isn't an even split between clean vocals/harsh vocal songs for it to work in vinyl the way the album is sequenced. In fact the sequencing is the problem with the album maybe the harsh vial songs should of been mixed thought the album, say every 3rd or 4th song is one of the harsh vocals as these are the songs that are highlights "Burn" "Deep Inside" & and album closer "Stay With Me all being album highlights. Again these are all on the latter half of the album although the album could only end with "Stay With Me" as it has that's classic album that's just taken you on a journey kinda feeling.
Which leads me to a thought, what if all this is one of those brilliant slow burn albums that the songs that didn't mean all that much to you after plenty of spins end up being your favourite tunes .................
Now that I think of it I was humming a few of them early clean vocals songs making breakfast this morning, the two that I thought I didn't like 🤔............ To Be Continued ................
4/5
Dr.BMR
Music wise this is I wouldn't say soft but maybe more laidback and reminded me of a band say like Trivium in places (I mean this in a good way as the production also is flawless)
It definitely plays like an album with two sides having all the clean vocals songs at the start and the harsh vocal songs at the end, it would be great in vinyl I hear you say? Well this is where we run into the problem with this album........
While its not a bad album (in fact at times its brilliant) it's that there isn't an even split between clean vocals/harsh vocal songs for it to work in vinyl the way the album is sequenced. In fact the sequencing is the problem with the album maybe the harsh vial songs should of been mixed thought the album, say every 3rd or 4th song is one of the harsh vocals as these are the songs that are highlights "Burn" "Deep Inside" & and album closer "Stay With Me all being album highlights. Again these are all on the latter half of the album although the album could only end with "Stay With Me" as it has that's classic album that's just taken you on a journey kinda feeling.
Which leads me to a thought, what if all this is one of those brilliant slow burn albums that the songs that didn't mean all that much to you after plenty of spins end up being your favourite tunes .................
Now that I think of it I was humming a few of them early clean vocals songs making breakfast this morning, the two that I thought I didn't like 🤔............ To Be Continued ................
4/5
Dr.BMR
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