'The Room' is a rock band founded in 2010 that has just released its third album 'Caught by the Machine'. At the first listening, we find group influences like 'Saga', 'Marillion' or 'Arena' with a less developed progressive side because the compositions have rather classical couplet/chorus structures but globally, the whole is accessible thanks to melodic lines easily assimilated as in the energetic 'Bodies on the Road' or in 'Broken' that brings us back to the 80s or with 'Just Walk Away' which starts in mid-tempo and accelerates on the end of the title. However, some tracks come out of this scheme with 'The Golden Ones' and the ballad 'Vanished' and their instrumental part in the middle of the title, then 'Drowning in Sound', which takes us on for almost 9 minutes in a theatrical atmosphere. theatrical enough where there are changes of tempo and intensity and sees the singer 'Kim Seviour' of the group 'Touchstone' make a brief appearance and finally, 'It's not my Home' with a first part with a nice swaying rhythmic and then a rise in power with magnificent alternations between sung and instrumental parts. In summary, 'The Room' releases a quality rock album with accessible melodies and 'Caught by the Machine' is recommended for a public loving melodic rock with some incursions into the progressive music... | |
