King Of Hearts - All That Matters

In So Many Words
Land Of Dreams
The Night The Angels Cried
Working Man
My Desire
Don't Call My Name
No Matter What
Closer To The Edge (remix)
Stranger In A Strangers Town
I Surrender All
Midnight Crossing
After The Love Is Gone
Lovin' Arms (live in Tokyo)
Broken World (previously unreleased)

Label: Thoughtscape Sounds
Year: 1997
Producers: Bruce Gaitsch, David Cole & Tommy Funderburk

Total Playing Time: 66:30 m:s

King Of Hearts have released two albums on European label Westcoast & both have been well received. Several times I've been tempted to buy one of those albums. However, from the reviews I've read, I've always felt that the music would be too sugary for my tastes.

Tommy Funderburk & Bruce Gaitsch will be familiar names to many of you, as they are accomplished session musicians & I'm not even going to attempt to list the projects they've been involved in.

There could well be more appropriate comparisons from the world of Westcoast, but I'd say Drive She Said and Richard Marx are a couple of names from my own collection that give some idea of where KOH are coming from. Neat & tidy AOR with the type of infectious chorus's that many a band would cut off their collective right arms for.

The first 9 songs all sound good to me. I tried to select a few tracks from this batch as the album highlights, but I was in danger of listing all 9. However, I'll pick out Stranger In A Strangers Town as my favourite track on the album.

After this point I switch off to a certain extent. I all goes a touch too mellow for me, although I like the final song and it is usually enough to keep me listening until the CD ends.

I can't compare this with previous releases, but I do know that I've been missing out on some cool music by ignoring King Of Hearts

Rating: 7/8