Independent review

The time has come for Swedish melodic hard rockers, professionals in hits about the night (Night of passion, I rule the night), to record a cover album. In their native Sweden, the band is highly regarded, local hit parades love them, except perhaps the last 2015 album missed the mark. It is interesting what the idea is to try to regain popularity with a disc of remakes. Either such moves work in Scandinavia, or there is nothing left to compose. They chose, of course, items that in the original go maximally in a pop-rock vein, no hard or heavy, because Poodles put pop-melodism in the first place, despite the heavy guitars. They start briskly with the guitar neighing of wild horses in the cover of the Osmond brothers' Crazy horses; the well-known disco hit Michael Sembello's Maniac sounds empty; the modern pop song Love is gone is more interesting; the Depeche Mode song "It's no good" lost its atmosphere; Don't you worry child is generally some kind of stadium trash in the chorus; Elton's Goodbye yellow brick road is shot almost one-to-one, and the electric guitar in the chorus does not change the essence; even the track popular in the cover space, Blondie's "Call me", started to sound boring; Go your own way - mush; Jakob Samuel - is not at all Adele in Set fire to the rain (he is the former drummer of Talisman, where Soto sang); the album closes (looks like a bonus) an unexpected remake of Deep Purple's "Soldier of fortune" with folk elements of different nations - the second successful move on the disc. A 1000 times repeated truth - to make a cover album, you need not only to choose your favorite songs, but also to fit them into your style, while inventing original interesting arrangements. A failure.

Likes: 0