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Artist: Final Frontier |
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'Freelight' is the fourth release from Final Frontier and the combination of Rob Moratti and Mladen have once again come up trumps with this new album. The melodic rock fraternity have embraced the band with their Journey-esq tones since the band's debut album. This new album delivers the same high quality melodic rock as the bands previous albums, but this time they have taken on a harder edge to some of the tracks. The album gets off to fantastic start with the title track ‘Freelight’, a real storming opener. I know Moratti's vocals will be associated with the Journey Steve Perry era but that isn’t particularly at a bad thing, as this is the market that the band want to be aim for, anyway I think the band are bigger than this and this album will enforce that fact. The album continues with ‘Dynamo’, a track that promotes the band as a great all round melodic hard rock band and in with Mladen dishing out all the right notes. This is actually one of my favourite tracks off the whole album. ‘Foolish Pride’ is pure melodic rock at its finest, the band have really hit the mark with this one. The band really go for it with the next one ‘Only The Lonely’, which is a more up-tempo track that rocks from the off and leaves the Journey-like sound far behind them. Moratti has a stunning voice that was meant for this genre and really shines on this album more than the previous albums. A great example of this is on ballad ‘I Hope You Don’t Mind’, which is a real gem. The tempo soon picks up again with ‘Someone’s Watching You’, a track that highlights another of the bands similarities, this time it’s got just a touch of the gentle tones of Survivor woven into this one. Another track where Moratti’s vocals really shine is the catchy rhythms of ‘All The Way’. The album returns to the more melodic hard rock with ‘Nothing Is Easy’ before more Survivor like tones on the excellent ‘Lions Den’. The band pull out all the stops on the next track ‘The Witches Mask’, which rounds of the album proper before the two bonus tracks. Firstly it's ‘Half Way Home’, a great power ballad, then the final track on my copy of the album is ‘Delia’, another gentle repose and a track that is more Journey-esq than any other track on the album. Which all goes to round off what is probably the bands best album to date and one that will surely rate highly with melodic rock fans throughout the world when released later this month.
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