GOD HAS FAILED

RPWL

Neo-Prog

3.36 | 171 ratings

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ClemofNazareth
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The only word I can think of to accurately describe this album is – ponderous.

(pǒn’dərə-s), adj. “lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull”

In this first offering from RPWL the band’s Pink Floyd clone-band days shine through, if you consider blatant riff-lifting and vocal parroting to be ‘shining’. I might be just a bit more tolerant of the lack of originality if the band hadn’t taken other liberties rather insulting to their prospective fan-base. First, the title – “God Has Failed”, is clearly intended as a mildly sensational attention-grabber, since the lyrics and music fail to make the case for exactly why or how God has failed. And I was actually kind of curious.

More egregious in my mind is the seemingly slapdash manner in which the various multi- part tracks were arranged, with seemingly little connection to each other or to themselves (“Hole in the Sky”, “What I Need”). Other than a modestly interesting guitar riff and rhythm on “In Your Dreams”, every track here sounds like David Gilmour either singing Pink Floyd outtakes, or David Gilmour singing Chris DeBurgh tunes (“Crazy Lane”), or David Gilmour singing – I don’t know, Icehouse? (“Fool”).

Finally, the seventy-one minute length on this particular album is about sixty minutes too long. Normally I’d appreciate getting plenty of music for my money, but in this instance the band pretty much lays out all they have to offer on the first couple of tracks.

Really, I was inclined to not comment on this album at all, but after shelling out twelve bucks for what turned out to be a very disappointing album (even more so than Stock, which at least had a couple of modestly original tracks), I felt it necessary to warn off others from making the same mistake.

In my opinion two stars are too much, but after reading reviews from fans of the band I can see at least they seem to find value in it, so that fits the definition of two stars.

peace

ClemofNazareth | 2/5 | 2006-8-14

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