'Toby Hitchcock' is known to be the singer of 'Pride Of Lions' whose last two studio albums date back to 2017 for 'Fearless' and from 2020 for 'Lion Heart' but he also has a solo career in parallel and his latest album 'Reckoning' gave us some remarkable melodic rock compositions. 'Changes' is therefore his last baby and he has concocted an album filled with addictive melodies to have a wonderful listening moment. To do this, he teamed up with 'Alessandro Del Vecchio' who produces and participates as a keyboardist and bassist and who is multiplying releases now (see last review of myprogmusic for the last 'Hardline' which was released the same day). The whole is shared between catchy melodies that catch us from the first listen like 'Forward' which opens the albm (see video above), 'Before I Met You' which is a cover by the Greek singer 'Despina Vandi' (see here) or the AOR jewels that are 'Changes', 'Garden of Eden' or even 'Two Hearts on the Run' and other calmer compositions such as 'Tonight Again' between ballad and mid-tempo with a heady chorus that comes directly into the head or the two beautiful syrupy ballads 'Don't Say Goodbye' and 'Run Away Again (From Love)' or even 'Losing You' which ends the album with a last ballad that has nothing to envy to the previous ones. In summary, 'Toby Hitchcock' gives us a very nice AOR album with melodies that loop in the head and that take us back to the best of the AOR of the 80s/90s with, icing on the cake, a voice always so expressive and warm, which intends 'Changes' to a large audience in love with a classic melodic rock which has in a way become a timeless style... | |
