Position - Nobody's Hero | ||
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Label: - Producer: Dave Natale Year: 2000 Total Playing Time: 33:55 m:s Review date: 27/12/2000 |
| Web site: Email: positionnj@aol.com | ||
| Rating: 73 % | ||
| Verdict: A HM sandwich with an interesting filling. | ||
| For their new album Position have drafted in Dave Natale (who has helped to create the live sound for the likes of Plant/Page, Van Halen and Bon Jovi) on production duties. The album took a year to record and is a follow up to last year's "The Message".
Listening to the opening two tracks and indeed the final two tracks takes me back to the days of the NWOBHM. Although the music isn't an exact match, lead singer Lil Al Bufano sounds like Biff and NWOBHM stalwarts Saxon are the first band that spring to mind when thinking of comparisons. These four songs are all out and out rockers. Second track, "In My Heart", is my favorite from these. A little bit of acoustic guitar is thrown in giving another dimension to the song. The third track, "Out Of Reach", has a decidedly moody start before developing into a good power ballad where this time the music and the vocals combine to sound very like Saxon. After the trio of opening rockers "Take The Time" is a bit of a shock to the system. It's a slow country rock tune that reminds me of Neil Young. The variety continues on "KT" which is a riff-based instrumental that has plenty of guitar histrionics and the very short "Philly Stomp" metal/punk shout rather than song. "Johnny Blues" lives up to its name by being a mid-paced blues rock song. The best way to describe the album as a whole is "a sandwich", with a bit of a surprise filling between the slices of traditional HM bread. Being mainly an AOR fan, my favorite track is "Out Of Reach" and I would have liked to see a few more tracks in a similar vein to stretch the album beyond the rather short playing time of 33 mins, although I do realize that recording budgets etc may be main reason for the album's brevity. | ||
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