After a run of decent albums,
Frontline have lost their way. They've ended up in that Purgatory where bands responsible for underwritten, overproduced albums go to serve their penance.
The underwriting is on the wall from the off.
Opener '
No One' is a desperate attempt to work up the most anorexic of tunes into something more substantial by pumping up the volume and the production values.
Second track
'I Give You The Rest' follows suit. Just when you think it's going nowhere, it does.
'
Save Me' covers every cliché in the book in a misguided try for originality, but again, the lack of a discernible tune is a distinct disadvantage.
Maybe realising they were sailing into stormy waters, the band set a course for calmer seas by rolling out their tried and tested fallback plan - record a track that sounds like Journey. Unfortunately, '
Did You Ever' could never rescue a ship fatally holed below the water line, but it would at least give the crew something to sing along to as they sink beneath the waves.
It's the only redeeming feature on an album ridden with second rate songs, blighted further by clumsy hands on the production tiller.
Better avoided.
Written by
Brian Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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