THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN'S EYES

A concept album around an Irish lad living their life.

A so-so album.

An overly dramatic album placing importance on over enunciated lyrics straight from something as hamfisted as a musical. With a musical score fire for romantic films this album has the signature Fruupp charm mixed throughout, yet still remains a poor effort.

Track one opens with nice drumming and strings that become a lovely vocal section. This becomes a sillier section that just ruins the song, simply awful singing here, cringe inducing. A guitar solo after with string backup takes us back to clearer meadows. A great interlude moves the song to a strong finish with the original vocal section returning, thus 3/5 on a track that could have been excellent.

Track two opens with crackling sfx and guitar/piano. Accentuated Irish accented singing follows to establish their ruinous hold. This is interspersed with vocal harmonies and better singing. Various pleasant instrumental sections follow until a reprisal of earlier vocals occurs. 3/5

Track three opens with a more Americana (might be Irish folk which is what American folk is derived from anyways?) beat/instrumentation, terrible. An interlude without vocals it's fine (I don't rate short songs like this, they're score is entirely derived from their surroundings) .

Track four opens with rock guitar and frantic piano chords. The singing on this one is alright, I like the brief turn to falsetto but dislike the bridge. 3/5

Track five opens with the closing of track four because this album can be viewed as one song and this is side two. This track is actually quite amazing. The singing is very touching. It's followed by a shout after a lull, which kicks the song into a powerful guitar solo. Gentle piano and flute follow, guitar chords come in quietly, so beautiful. The band builds up again for different singing, less calm more vigorous still sublime. Drifting vocals through audio panning open the song up for a ridiculous bass/keyboard section, very otherworldly in its brilliance. Eventually the band works to an ah ah ah part that drives towards the songs finishline. The second vocal part returns, delivered more powerful. Guitar soloing over bass/keys, aided by percussion closes the song on a happy note. A surprise 5/5 song.

Track six starts right away with classical esque piano that is joined by crystalline vocals floating above. This is a good short song 4/5, nice and pretty.

Track seven starts with guitar in the Melodic Symphonic Progressive Rock style Fruupp resides within. Quickly piano overtakes the composition. The guitar then returns and the song becomes piano runs over prominent bass. Sadly vocals come when the song should have ended. They are okay, really striking me as unnecessary bloat to the song/album though. This song is fine.

Track eight closes the album like it started gentle vocals, string keys, percussion and bass. This is followed by a mediocre guitar solo that goes on a bit to long. Another okay song.

Overall I find this to be without a doubt Fruupps worse album and wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they are a fan of silly music or musicals. Without the storytelling singing at times this album could be 4/5.

Ps "Knowing You" I do recommend, that song is excellent.

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