BLIND EGO

(GERMANY)

LIQUID

(2016)
LABEL:

GENTLE ART OF MUSIC

GENRE:

PROGRESSIVE ROCK

TAGS:
Easy-Listening
"Too clean, without asperity, without taking risks, "Liquid" deserves an attentive listening thanks to pleasant melodies and inspired guitar parts."
NEWF (09.11.2016)  
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Bind Ego is the solo project of Kalle Wallner, Mr. W of the German band RPWL. After "Mirror" in 2007 and "Numb" in 2009, the guitarist comes back with his third album "Liquid", surrounded by a line-up of three different singers and three different bassists.

If "Mirror" was rather a melancholic progressive rock album and "Numb" a more metal opus, "Liquid" is a mille-feuille alternating successive layers of each of these styles according to the range of each singer's voice. Thus Erik Blomkvist and his powerful timbre is present on the more metal tracks ('A Place In The Sun', 'What If', 'Never Escape The Storm', 'Here My Voice Out There') while the rock and pop tracks are reserved for the singer of Subsignal, Arno Menses ('Blackened', 'Not Going Away', 'Tears and Laughter') and the power ballad 'Speak The Truth' to Aaron Brooks.

Although the album is well produced and rather pleasant to listen to, the music of Blind Ego is not really original. Some tracks stand out like the very good 'Blackened', strongly influenced by Porcupine Tree and 'What If', an excellent melodic metal track. But others are quite ordinary, especially the hard rock ones ('Tears and Laughter', 'Here My Voice Out There') or even dusty like the instrumental 'Quiet Anger', despite its excellent bass part played by Heiko Jung, Panzerballet's bass player.

Fortunately Kalle Wallner is a good guitarist and his aerial and expressive soli illuminate several tracks with a good dose of feeling ('A Place In The Sun', 'Never Escape The Storm', 'Speak The Truth'), even if the frequent use of the whammy pedal colours some passages unnecessarily ('Not Going Away').

Too clean, without asperity, without taking risks, "Liquid" won't go down in history and is in the end a rather shaky album. But it still deserves an attentive listening thanks to pleasant melodies and inspired guitar parts.
- Official website
SIMILAR BANDS:
RPWL, KINO, PORCUPINE TREE

TRACK LISTING:
01. A Place In The Sun
02. Blackened
03. What If
04. Not Going Away
05. Never Escape The Storm
06. Tears And Laughter
07. Hear My Voice Out There
08. Quiet Anger
09. Speak The Truth

LINEUP:
Kalle Wallner: Guitares
Aaron Brooks: Chant / Invité
Arno Menses: Chant / Invité
Erik Ez Blomkvist: Chant / Invité
Heiko Jung: Basse / Invité
Michael Schwager: Batterie / Invité
Ralf Schwager: Basse / Invité
Sebastian Harnack: Basse / Invité
   
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