Producers: Gary Hughes
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MiskamNiretet · 3.0 / 5 · · 2024-08-06 21:58:49
EveryDisc · 3.0 / 5 · · 2017-10-03 06:00:17
Ten are pleasing (?) fans for the 13th time, this is not counting all of Gary Hughes' side projects, of which I think there will be even more. Well, this is another set of standard tracks from Gary and his team. I noticed somewhere back in 2004 that the albums began to turn at best into packaging for 1-2 hits, and sometimes there were ones full only of passable things. Here The grail stands out. You can designate it as that very hit. After all, Gary scatters his composing talent, which undoubtedly exists, too much. But a large part of the hits goes into projects and other groups. And the essence is that they all sound similar, i.e. could have played on Ten discs. Things that are simpler, but also standing out - Jekyll and Hyde, In my dreams and The wild king of winter (due to the framing of riffs). Of course, everything is beautifully recorded and virtuously played on as many as 5 guitars, if you count the bass. From the point of view of classic AOR and melodic, Gothica is probably very good, but these are boring-ish styles where imagination is not required. Epic and pompous - these are the main synonyms of the current Ten. Unfortunately, Gary's form has long since more often than not prevailed over the content.
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