(MALS 05)
Flight 09- Human Nature
(MALS 05)
From Aural Innovations #36 (May 2007)
All I can say is that I hope that there are No spandex pants and No theatrical
shenanigans going down with this band!
As I listen to the first track I instantly get the rock/prog rock vibe kicking
in my mind. And to my horror friends it could be a one of those Yes ‘like
concept prog rock things, shit! That is why I inadvertently frightened myself
by imaging the band themselves as a version of Iron Maiden meeting Rainbow and
Rush in a binge fest of spandex and theatrics. I sense that I am already ill
at ease with this situation.
It all sounds a bit 80’s to me. It all sounds a bit too Genesis meets
Marillion, destined to be the next Simple Minds, and in fact it reminds me in
places to a time when I drank under age in the local boozer during the 80’s.
When mullets were in and hard rock was really a bunch of girls pretending too
be hard. Bad times in music that I thought were thankfully gone forever. Hearing
this CD made me think otherwise.
This is not to say that I dislike it all, I do not! But in truth I cannot handle
the singing or the music, so the tracks that I like are really few and far between.
I do not think that I will make it through brothers and sisters!
I persist, just for you and hear elements of The Wall era Pink Floyd but as
the time ticks by further I hear more things that I dislike because they have
no relevance to anything that I like or listen to.
To me the music is definitely alive and kicking but it is as if every track
they play I seem to have heard the riff or melody somewhere before. And because
of this fact I would definitely not call it original music.
It plods monotonous, in my eyes, with too much trying and you could say that
I find it too commercial sounding for me. It is too nicey nice in an all too
nice way. Yet it also sits within Prog Rock without too much injustice to the
genre.
On the whole however I find it well performed, recorded and produced. And another
plus is that it is Pink Floyd in a fashion. Shame that it is not my favorite
era Floyd that is being used as influence.
Cut the world some slack why don’t ya!
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Reviewed by Albert Pollard