A SECRET TO HIDE

The pandemic has seen a resurgence of some of the bands that were active up to the late 2000s but faded away as time and tastes went by. Despite the break, Poverty's No Crime stay true to the mid-tempo, melodic sound, focusing on teamwork rather than individual flash, with an earnest, regular-guy vocals. There is an abundance of lead guitar lines, but those are always supported by strong band backing. In fact, if you strip them down, the songs would make a fine camp-fire sing-a-along. The loud but somewhat flat wall-of-sound production is similar to their 2016 comeback, Spiral of Fear. If the average track lenght may seem the longest since their One in a Million days, well, it's not because of excessive complexity, but due to the tendency to stretch the songs to the very point when more would make you press the "next" button. There is only so much even of a great melody that the listener can absorb. You may call this boring, but I guess it suits my middle-aged temperament just fine.