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A surprise from Sweden, although ELEVENER is not bringing
anything new to the scene. Nevertheless, their debut record
sounds like a great AOR-by-the-numbers record, catchy and
sounding picture perfect. Some of the members played on records
of SCENARIO, HAMMERFALL, FULL STRIKE and MILLION, so we are
dealing here with established musicians. The deal here is
a new band/project that is focused on pure 80s catchy Summer/Fun
uptempo driven hookfilled AOR/Melodic Rock with memorable
choruses to sing-a-long with. It all starts with the super
catchy chorus opening uptempo AOR Rocker “This heart of mine”,
a song that sounds like a cross between CHANGE OF HEART, the
very first FM, HONEYMOON SUITE and ATLANTIC. A great way to
start off and although in the end, this first track is the
absolute highlight, also the rest of the CD follows this catchy
AOR style, with as other best tracks “Say if you want” (uptempo
Melodic Rock a la HONEYMOON SUITE circa ‘Bad attitude’), “Shooting
star” (mix “Dreams” of VAN HALEN with MICHAEL BOLTON’s “You
wouldn’t know love” as covered by FM in 1986) and “Could it
be you”. Close in style to KHYMERA and BROTHER FIRETRIBE,
but not as good as them, however better than NEWMAN, which
is also in the same style, pure 80s catchy chorus driven AOR/Melodic
Rock is the game here and ELEVENER do that very very well.
More info at: www.myspace.com/elevenelevenagain
(Points: 8.5 out of 10)
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