Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Artrock | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 160 / 5-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Just For Kicks | Autor: AS
On his new solo album, former Galahad bassist Lee Abraham and his band perform seven songs that are characterized by the cleverly staged contrast between crisp rock hardness and melodiousness. For example, driving metal guitar riffs stand next to almost AOR-like harmony vocals and wonderfully spherical-melancholic keyboard parts that remind us of the early Genesis ("Closing The Door"). Midtempo songs like "Distant Days" come across wonderfully floating and swinging. "Misguided" is more experimental and weirder and its hardness is reminiscent of grain. It gets more progressive with the eleven minutes long "Corridors Of Power" and the 15 minutes long "Tomorrow Will Be Yesterday". Almost all songs also feature technically and emotionally high quality guitar solos that really tell something. Many guest contributions (among others Karl Groom from Threshold, Robin Armstrong from Cosmograf and Dec Burke from Frost*) set additional accents without endangering the homogeneity of the album. A round thing.
Top Track: Distant Days
