6 years after their last album Magnum returned with an fresh album with a futuristic cover in the style of their previous albums and music that sounds definitive Magnum which means melodic hard rock with catchy hooks and also elements of progressive rock, like they have always have done. Here and there it can get a little too cheesy though and there are no songs that are more than pretty good. The album is somewhat low key and stripped down compared to much of their earlier majestic and pompous music. The melodies are as strong as ever though and it is incredible how songwriter and guitarrist Tony Clarkin is able to come with new killer songs album after album, year after year.

Tony Clarkin have said that he needed this break from Magnum since he had, since 1979 when the band's 1st album came out, constantly worked with or for Magnum. The drums on the album is either played by Clarkin or are samples. Live they were joined by Thunder's drummer Harry James. New bassist was Al Barrow who had played in Clarkin's and singer Bob Catley's band Hard Rain during Magnums hiatus.

1)Cry (7,5)

2)This heart (7,0)

3)Everyday (8,0)

4)Still (6,5)

5)Dream about you (7,5)

6)Breath of life (7,0)

7)After the rain (6,5)

8)That holy touch (7,5)

9)Let somebody in (7,5)

10)The face of an enemy (7,0)

11)Just like january (7,5)

12)Night after night (8,5)

Score: 7,33  

Bob Catley-vocals (b.1947)

Tony Clarkin-guitars (b.1946)

Al Barrow-bass (b.1968)

Mark Stanway-keyboards (b.1954)

Från
    Kom ihåg mig
URL

Säkerhetskod
     

Kommentar

    Album number two from this incredible supergroup that made some unforgettable music in the 1980's! This is again melodic hardrock with a lot of keyboards and with impressing melodic, orchestral and powerful songs with fantastic vocals. A mus...

    This is the debut album from England's supergroup of the era including former John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Yardbirds guitarrist Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker -a drummer for The Graham Bond Organisation and Jack Bruce who briefly had played w...

    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 ...

    This american doom-band has an interesting history. Formed as an side-project by Pentagram's Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe and was completed with Randy Palmer as far back as 1973-74 when they also recorded some material which did not get r...

    Another one of my favorite bands from the 1980's and 90's. I have always loved thier simple and bluesy hardrocksongs with singer Jack Russell's clear and sensetive vocals. This, their 3rd album is one of the highlights of the band's career a...