Robin Brock - Blame In On Rock & Roll | ||
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Label: A2 Records 1999 Total Playing Time: 47:20 m:s Review date: 04/01/2000 |
| Web site: www.assassignation.co.uk
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| Rating: 76% | ||
| Verdict: If you're missing Pat Benetar & Heart, then Robin's album is definitely well worth checking out.
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| Singer/Songwriter Robin Brock had already released her debut album in her native Canada, when it came to the attention of Assassination Music in the UK who signed her to the newly formed A2 Records.
When it comes to female vocalists, it is the country arena that has been grabbing my attention recently with Shania Twain and Faith Hill. It made a pleasant change to hear someone successfully approaching things from a rock perspective again. On the rockier numbers Robin sounds like Pat Benetar and the on the slow, more AOR, numbers like Heart's Ann Wilson. That's a combination that is hard to ignore. "Pickboy Rules" is a bit of shock to the system when you first hear it. A surprisingly heavy instrumental introduction. From then on it is a mixture of rockers and ballads with Robin sounding like the singers mentioned above. "Rockin' On The Airwaves" is one of the more catchy numbers and I think it is lined up to be a single. "I Lied" beats it to the best song on the album award. The Heart-style mid-tempo AOR number has been used in the soundtrack to the film "Out Of This Mind". "Burning Up" is the rockiest tune of offer and it is the type of rock 'n' roll rocker that sounds like a Poison tune. A few tracks, "She's Outta Control", "Just A Fantasy" and "It's My Heart", have a real 80's AOR feel to them. The trashy "Lipstick & Lace" and the ballad, "Drowning", weren't to my tastes. Robin has a great voice and it is good to hear some classy female AOR again. This is a good album and I think fans of 80's AOR divas Pat Benetar and Heart will welcome it with open arms. | ||
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