Melodic, still melodic and more and more melodic, the playlist of melodic rock / hard-rock releases for the first half of 2021 that you can check out above continues to be populated every other day, and this time it's with singer from 'Michael Schenker Group', 'Robin McAuley' who has just released a new album under his name, 'Standing On The Edge', surrounded by artists from the hard-rock scene with among others, the famous archi known 'Alessandro Del Vecchio' since he produces his album with 'Frontiers' (little research on myprogmusic here). He offers us 8 compositions that he co-wrote with 'Alessandro Del Vecchio', 'Phil Lanzon', 'Howard Leese' and 'Tommy Denander' respectively coming to lend a hand to Robin for one track each. No surprise, with such artists, we are immersed in an AOR taking us back to the 80s with melodies that graft directly into the head with energetic guitar riffs of 'Andrea Seveso' softened by keyboards held by 'Alessandro Del Vecchio'. Each track could have been the subject of a single and the whole is mostly made up of measured rhythms with the exception of the tracks 'Thy Will Be Done', 'Chosen Few', 'Like a Ghost' and 'Running out of Time' a little more faster and just as addictive as the mid-tempos 'Standing on the Edge', 'Do You Remember', 'Say Goodbye' or even 'Supposed to Do Now' which all have choruses that we want to take up in chorus, without forgetting the two beautiful ballads 'Late December' and 'Run Away'. In short, nothing to throw in this opus which is listened to happily from start to finish with a 'Robin McAuley' which has nothing to envy to the best singers of this style and if you are a fan of melodic rock of the 80s, you should definitely adopt 'Standing On The Edge'... | |
