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BURDENED HANDS

Eyestrings

 

Neo-Prog

2.62 | 19 ratings

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toroddfuglesteg
2 stars This is a Neo-Prog album which is staring at the AOR market and says "The grass is greener over there". This is an album who does not want to be a prog rock album. You get my drift.......

The first song Recovery is fairly good and proggy. The next two tracks destroys all the credibility of this album in my view (make that "ears"). The first one, Itchy Tickler, has a honky tonk theme and falls flat on it's face. The next one is an emotionally overcharged vocal driven song called Dead Supermen. An utterly horrible song with no redeeming features whatsoever. Both songs are rock'n'roll and not prog whatsoever.

The rest of the album picks up and there are some OK songs here. The band is not hopeless. But this album is all over the place. Mostly in the AOR land. Eyestrings must also had an eye for the likes of Radiohead and the Emo rock scene when producing the songs here. I guess this music is very palatable in the high schools on the US east-coast.

The songs are pretty long on this album. Around six and a half minutes long on average. Unfortunate, long songs does not always make a good album. This is not an album I enjoy. I find it pretty dismal and award it 2 stars.

2 stars

toroddfuglesteg | 2/5 |

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