The following tracks have made my life a bit easier, whether good or not, while I have dealt with coordinating tea parties in Maine. I think I am reviewing a CD here that meets each mood I have felt over the past week. I will let you guess what moods those are, dear rockers.
CD Reviews
The Answer: Everyday Demons
It's hard to believe this band would be able to top their awesome debut, Rise, described by many, including your reviewer, as one of the best British rock debuts in a very long while and certainly the best thing to pop this young century. No over production here, they have kept to the same formula that worked the last time. They have opened for AC/DC and other huge bands, played the biggest festivals possible, and toured the world.
This release was hyped in the hard rock press in quite a spectacular way. So does it live up the hype or is it yet another band falling at the second hurdle? Hard rock fans need not worry because The Answer have quite possibly topped their debut album with this release. They manage to channel the great hard rockers of their land while making it fresh and exciting. There are snatches of Zeppelin, Bad Company, AC/DC with a touch of a melange of 70s rock thrown in for good measure. This is a great album from start to finish. They cover the gamut from rockers like “Evil Man” to moving tracks like “Cry Out”.
They even manage to thrown in a bonus track that is worth having, the catchy as stink sing-along “Revolutions”. If you like your hard rock and have not discovered The Answer yet, then you owe it to yourself to seek this out. You will be very hard pressed to find a better hard rock album this or any other year.
Prong: Power of the Damn Mixxer
This is a remix album, the title of the CD is a clue, of Prong’s release the Power of the Damager. Now, as you probably know, I am rather skeptical of “re-mix” albums, considering most of them are no better than the endless “compilations” that some bands release to milk their fans for all their worth. Prong is one of those bands that just might get away with this sort of release because there is so much depth to their stuff.
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