Direktlänk till inlägg 14 mars 2012
This band is from San Francisco, USA and this is their 5th album. They sound like a product of a popular type of music at the moment since they seem to be riding on the progressive metal-wave of the 2000's. Ufortunately this album isn't very good, in fact most of it sucks. It sounds like someone said to them: -Play progressive metal, it sells at the moment. The singing is very lame and they sound like they are trying hard to play progressive music even if they don't like that kind of music. This is crap like most american hardrockbands at the moment.
Joe Hutton and Leila Abdul Rauf are new in the band.
1)317 (3,5) Terrible start, almost instrumental.
2)17th street (4,5) Very progressive with strange vocals and a steady but boring rhythm.
3)The grain (5,0) 7 minute boring song that just goes on and on. Only the refrain is melodic and nice.
4)Staring (The 31st floor) (5,0)
5)The day the city died (6,0) Intense and better song.
6)Romance valley (7,0) Much better. Very intense and some nice male/female vocals.
7)Summer tears (2,5) Truly terrible. Why?
8)Grey wednesday (5,0)
9)Going somewhere (5,0) How can 10 minutes of progressive hardrock sound so boring?
Score: 4,83
Joe Hutton-vocals
John Cobbett-guitars
Leila Abdul Rauf-guitars and vocals
Max Barnett-bass
Chewy Marzolo-drums
Sigrid Sheie-piano and organ
8 years into their albumreleasingcareer J. Geils Band released another album worth of rockin' and rollin' songs but this time they took a much calmer and poppier path and not all the songs are top class anymore. It seemes like they went out ...