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When
many CDs are released every day it gets harder and harder to
really get impressed with a new release. Well, something like that
just happened to me and a band called Felony, from Switzerland,
caused it. I am not go to tell you too much about their history
now, somewhere else on this site you'll find an interesting
interview that I did with bassist Thomas Brogli. Lazy as I am, I
let him do all the work explaining and telling us more about how
this band was founded.
So now for my part of the deal, listening and reviewing their
debut album that was so cleverly called 'First Works'. Already
with the first tunes, an intro called 'An Introduction To', I knew
this album would be a fine piece of work to sit back and relax to.
I was right! In the past I used to love the Danish band Royal Hunt
so much. The way they composed and mixed all fine instruments into
a bigger thing gave me goose bumps. Especially their singer DC
Cooper was the one that added the finishing touch. When DC Cooper
left that band all went downhill with these Danes and I lost my
interest. When the first real song 'What A Felony' started I knew,
the old Royal Hunt was back. But with new players, from a
different country and with a bunch of new songs that made me jump
of my chair. Especially the way this band combines awesome and
powerful instrumentation with shared vocals between a man's and a
woman's voice, make this listening trip of more than one hour a
very delightful job. The songs are so diverse and on every corner
there is musical surprise, a turn that you would not expect but
completes the whole idea of the composition. It's very special how
this band divides the lead-vocals between Andreas Wildi and Andrea
Richner. It even gets more special when they share some vocal
lines; their voices really complement each other in this
magnificent progressive music. The best tunes are 'My Way',
'Disappointed' and 'On Life's End' with some incredible
bass-tricks in the intro. (Bassist Thomas told me that these were
actually an idea from the keyboard-player). I have this album for
about two weeks now and played it for many times already. This one
will be in my year list of 2006, I am sure of that!
Score: 94/100 |
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