Fiore - Body Electric | ||
| Tracks:
Fool Youself |
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Label: MTM Producers: Harry Hess Year: 1998 Total Playing Time: 38:02 mins:secs Review date: Jan 1999 |
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| Rating: 8 | ||
| Verdict: Fiore put the lessons learnt in the HS development process to good use and create an album that shows HS how they should have done it. | ||
| Earlier this year I bought two albums together - Harem Scarem's Big Bang Theory & Fiore's Today Til Tomorrow. This turned out to be a very good combination. Big Bang Theory sees HS forging ahead and redefining their style yet again. For his first album, Today Til Tomorrow, Jon Fiore (ex Preview) teamed up with Harry Hess & Pete Lesperance of Harem Scarem . The result was an album jam packed with old style Harem Scarem songs performed excellently by Jon & the rest of the guys in Fiore. For this second album, Jon has again been working with Harry & Pete. Harry co-wrote the songs with Jon & produced the album. Both Harry & Pete play on the album. Just as HS have moved away from the style of their debut, the songs co-written by Harry & Jon have progressed towards the latter day HS sound. So where in the HS style progression do these songs fit in? To these ears somewhere between the HS debut and Believe/KC, with a few traces of Mood Swings thrown in. I'll have to admit that the first time I play this I was a bit disappointed - mainly because I guess I was hoping that Harry would have written old-style HS sounds for the occasion. Listening to it a few more times and trying to clear my mind of any preconceptions, I realised that this is really rather good. In fact, good enough to rival some of HS's own material. Forget about Voice Of Reason and Believe/KC, this album is the link between HS's Mood Swings and Big Bang Theory albums. Although both of those albums were necessary in HS's development, to my mind, this represents a more natural progression than either of them did. Fiore put the lessons learnt in the HS development process to good use and create an album that shows HS how they should have done it. With all this talk about HS, just where does Jon Fiore & the rest of the guys figure in this review. Well, Jon puts in a good vocal performance & the band do a good job. It all makes me think that maybe the HS guys should ask Jon to help them out with their next studio release. One HS characteristic that I could have done without is the brevity of what's on offer here. | ||
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