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"Too clean, without asperity, without taking risks, "Liquid" deserves an attentive listening thanks to pleasant melodies and inspired guitar parts."
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3/5
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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
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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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