Label: SPV/Steamhammer 2019
Review by: Urban "Wally" Wallstrom
The artwork is... ehhh... interesting and had me thinking about my absolutely favourite waste of time... grave robbing!!! Yeah, baby! There's nothing more exciting than to really dig in and... huh? too macabre? Fair enough. The French sleaze rockers / grave robbers of Black Rain and the new album called "Dying Breed" - is like a response to the way the music world goes. Surrounded by electro music and R&B, struck by the death of many of their idols that made the rock history, asked by people why they still wear the old-fashioned hairdo, the four guys more and more felt like a "Dying Breed", 'the last of their kind' as the opening track will have you singing?
Truth be told. Not really singing rather than pointing, shouting, and screaming at their vocalist, Swan (song or lake?) as the vocal styling may not always fit the melodies. His ability can not be denied but for the most past I am left confused by what he's trying to communicate? The album's been composed and recorded in Sweden where frontman Swan is permanently settled and tracks such as "All Angels Have Gone", "We Are The Mayhem", "Rock Radio", are all pretty grand and sleazy to the extreme.
This isn't a complete dire album, far from it, although it would be difficult to get over excited about many of the tracks on here. I guess someone forgot to tell BlackRain that the album sounds like a typical reject of the eighties scene. You know, clicheville and heard-it-before-city via 2ndrate-town. To each great song, there's two really dodgy ones and that simply won't do in the long run. I believe it's back to the drawing board (really? it's all computers now!) and let's hope for better next time. We need to support these acts after all or they're all end up as dying breed....
http://blackrain.fr
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