BE

Salem Hill's Be sounds to me like a return to the musical approach of The Robbery of Murder, only with mildly better production and a drastically reduced sense of focus. Stretching to well over an hour, Salem Hill unfortunately do not come up with sufficient material to really merit that sort of running time, and whilst they do seem to have a knack of tugging at the listener's heartstrings, the lack of a firm concept for the album means that it all seems rather aimless, and when their emotional prodding isn't serving a decent story it's profoundly irritating. Not my favourite by a long shot.