Shyboy - Shyboy
Have A Little Pity Good Girls All In The Name Of Love Goin' Down Fire Two Of A Kind Losin' You Grab My Lovin' Desperate Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya Label: Escape Music Ltd. Year: 1998 Producer: Hirsh Gardner Total Playing Time: 40:02
Escape Music hit us with yet another slab of Melodic Hard Rock, which seems to be their preferred genre. If uncomplicated arena style rock is what you get off on, then Shyboy are going to be for you. Most of the time they remind me of Damn Yankees meet arena gods Kiss, but Loverboy also crop up every now and then. However, the Shyboy sound is rawer than any of the aforementioned acts.
The rocking opening quartet all sound good. The acoustic Fire that follows isn't a bad song, but it kills the flow of the album for me. Two Of A Kind is one of the songs were the Loverboy comparison is relevant, the other being Grab My Lovin'. The band finishes off the album with two slower numbers. Desperate is a ballad. The album closes with a live version of the New England song Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya. John Fannon and Hirsh Gardner from New England help out on this one. A good song, but it doesn't feel as if it fits in with the rest of the material.
That leaves just one song to talk about. The most 'instant' song on the album is Losin' You. It would make a great single. It is the album highlight for me.
A respectable, if somewhat short, performance.
Rating: 7/8
