Artist: Lost In Rhone 
   Title: Beloved Be The Ones Who Sit Down
   Label: Dockyard 1

Belgium band Lost in Rhone may have only been together for two years, but in that time they have out grown the underground scene and feel that their time is now and with this debut release they could be right.

With the whole Emo music genre developing a unlicensed cloning process with bands seemingly popping up from out of nowhere, it would take something a little special to get my interest back in the genre, and I think Lost In Rhone bring something new and refreshing to the whole genre.

The album opens up with ‘Burnt Orange Report’, with its gentle start you are led into thinking what is all the hype about, but when the track really gets going your early doubts about the band are thrown aside.  Their refreshing outlook on the whole Emo sound is well worth a listen.  As the album unfolds it's plain to see that the band are more than just an emo band, they bring their own brand of heavy melodies and great song writing to the whole genre.

The album continues with ‘Le Temps Du Loup’, a song that is very much in the Lost Prophets mode with slick guitars and a pounding rhythm section.

The next track ‘On Becoming A Vampire’ is a more down tempo track, with the vocals taking prominence on the track and the rest of the band taking a back seat. After the sombre tones of the last track things pick up a bit with the hard core element of the bands repertoire taking over on ‘Light Bearer’ and ‘Ghosts’.

After the hard core onslaught its time once again to slow things down.  The change in pace comes under the heading of ‘Hysbrydion’, an instrumental piano piece that a must say stands alone on this album.

The band now bring the whole emo sound back from the ashes with the mighty ‘Walk With Daedalus’.  The vocals are at times intense, but they are not incomprehensible, unlike some songs by similar bands in the genre.

‘Give It Up’ and ‘Theater Of The Absurd’ and two tracks and the opposite ends of the emo spectrum, with Give It Up being the more melodic song and ‘Theater Of The Absurd’ being the more aggressive of the two.

The album closes with ‘E.P.S.’ a song that mixes the two different styles of the two previous tracks to great effect and rounds off a very impressive release.  Let's hope that the band can find success in this genre before the inevitable happens and the fickle young music fans of today find a new band wagon to jump on.

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