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Artist: Last Autumn's Dream |
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2010
got off to a great start with Last Autumn’s Dream leading the way with
the excellent ‘A Touch Of Heaven’, now here we are in 2011 and the band have
set the gold standard with their latest release ‘Yes”. Again
we see Mikael Erlandsson and rest
of the band, Andy
Malecek (Fair Like
the albums predecessor ‘A Touch Of Heaven’, the band deliver only top
quality music and in Erlandsson they have a vocalist at the top of the
Melodic tree of great vocalists. The
album opens up with ‘I’ve Fallen Into You’ and almost instantly
you're diving into some of the finest MR of the modern age, from a band
that has been dubbed a supergroup, but to me these are just four guys
delivering what every fan of the genre wants. That is big tunes filled with great
melodies and a vocalist who can deliver on all levels, and this opener
has all these and more. The
great tunes continue with the excellent ‘The Sound Of A Heartbreak’,
a real barnstormer with Malecek delivering the goods as only he can on
the six-string razor. Where
Erlandsson catches the imagination is when he delivers on ballads and
this album is no different, as he unleashes those humbling tones on
‘Another Night’. The band aren’t afraid to doing a few covers on
their albums and on 'A Touch Of Heaven' the band covered Wizzard and Cheap
Trick. Now on this new opus it's ‘A Fools Game’, yes the Michael Bolton
song from his debut album, which is given a great 2011 makeover. It
back to original material and another mellower slice of MR in ‘If I
Could Change The World’ before picking up the tempo with ‘To Be With
You’ then switching back with the excellent ‘Michelle Don’t Live
Here No More’, one of the standout tracks of the album for me. Things
get a little more rockier with the toe tapping splendour of ‘In This
Thing Too Deep’ before my two great tracks of very different tastes
and makeup. First up it's the superb melody rich ‘Still Standin’ Where Ya
Left Me’, then it's my track of the album, the sublime guitar laden
‘Kissin’ Goodbye My Tears’. This is modern Melodic Rock as it
should be. The
band really go for it with the last but one track ‘Survivor’, a track
more towards Hard Rock than AOR but a great track all the same and it
keeps in touch with the rest of the album without straying too far off
the melodic path. The
album closes with another great ballad entitled ‘Alive’ and rounds
off another superb release that again like last years ‘A Touch Of
Heaven’, sets the bar high for the rest to follow. |
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| Tracklisting:
1.
I've Fallen Into You |
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