Label: AOR Heaven 2013
Review by Kimmo Toivonen
UK AOR band Lost Weekend have been a bit "lost" to me since their third album "New Religion" some ten years ago. They've released a couple of albums inbetween, but I haven't heard them, and apparently the band was on "ice" for a couple years. I guess now the weekend's over, and the guys are back at work again. Manic Monday...
According to the bio the band ventured into a heavier territory a few years ago, but they've found their way back to the AOR land since then. "Evermore" is definitely a full-on AOR album with plenty of keyboards and sweet melodies, it's never particulary heavy despite the two guitarists in the band.
Most of the tracks on the album fall into the category of "nice AOR songs", easy on the ear yet lacking that punch to make them stand out. "Be Who You Wanna Be" and "Ain't No Friend Of Mine" are my favourites among them, while "Love Will Find You" and the modern-day Bon Jovi-like "Perfect Day" don't work that well. Still, they aren't too bad either...
After repeated playing, two tracks rise above the others, and they are both on the balladic side of things. "Falling By The Wayside" is a very nice ballad, but even better is "Angel Sublime". This might just be the band's finest song so far, a very touching semi-ballad with a bit of a Magnum-vibe. No wonder the band wrote Magnum-singer Bob Catley's "Spirit Of Man" album some years ago...
Because of the two aforementioned songs, the fourth "R" wasn't far away. Maybe a killer uptempo track would have tipped the scales...
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