Crown Of Thorns - Lost Cathedral | ||
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Lost Cathedral |
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Label: Now & Then/Frontiers Records Producers: Jean Beauvoir Year: 1998 Total Playing Time: 62:55 m:s Review date: 28 Aug 1998 |
| Web site: Crown Of Thorns Homepage
Email: cr0wns@aol.com | ||
| Rating: 9 | ||
| Verdict: COT finally fulfil the promise of the debut. | ||
| Until I listened to this, I had COT labelled as 'diamond geezers'. What is a 'diamond geezer' I hear you say. Well, 'diamond geezers' give great interviews and all the rock journalists love 'em, but their recorded work doesn't quite justify their legendary status. Other 'diamond geezers' include UK rockers Thunder.
COT's debut showed potential, but after I listened to it, I was left wondering what all the fuss had been about. The critics weren't so keen on the second album, so I gave it a miss. A couple of days after being asked to include a link to their new web site, I was in town and came home owning their latest album. If there was such a term as Glam AOR, that is how I would describe COT. Crunchy AOR is another. At just over an hour of music, it is quite a long album. By the time I had listened to it first time through, I wasn't that impressed. A lot of the songs sounded a tad similiar. However, after a couple of more listens, I'd 'got it' and I've been playing this to death ever since, to the detrement of the other albums I was supposed to being reviewing this month. Riff-tastic numbers include opener Lost Cathedral, Motorcycle Loretta, Greed Of Love & Cold Hearted Bitch. The rocking is continued on Lyin' and Although We're Fools which features a Beatle-esque chorus that seems a bit at odds with the rest of the song. From what I remember of the ballads on the debut, this was the area which let COT down by being a bit too predictable. This time there is a slight improvement in the ballad & semi-ballad area - Free Me, End Of The Road, Wasted Prime and final wimpout If You Need Me. Hard Rain did it on That Ain't Love, now COT have continued the hard rock/dance crossover on Hell Of A Night. That just leaves my favourite tune on the album - Live & Die. The title track is a good start to the album, but it doesn't prepare you for Live & Die. A wonderful mid-tempo tune that features a good mix of keyboards and guitars. Stuffed full of big hooks & infectious grooves, it is one of those albums that kinda works it's way inside your brain and becomes addictive. I guess I finally see why all those people have been singing COT's praises over the years. On Lost Cathedral they finally deliver on the promise of the debut. | ||
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