I'd not heard of these before and it's always nice to listen to something new.
When I listened to the album, I found myself thinking that a lot of the songs reminded me of other bands. I think it was mainly the guitar/drums/production that did it. For some reason I was getting a ZZ-Top feel when the song started, Holiday Head had a Motley Crue vibe, Smash was Talking Heads etc. I did quite like the singers voice though! Feel free to say this is nonsense, but that's how it sounded to me! I wasn't a fan of the production either, it sounded very tinny to my ears, but I do appreciate that was the style when it was recorded. I do find that in the 80s the production either is magnificent, or awful. One by Metallica suffers from awful production with little bass and this has that same production and it really lets the album down for me.
In the end I think I spent more thinking about what the next song would remind me of and I think that's part of the problem I had with this album. I just think it sounded more like other bands than 'them'. That might sound bad, but I did enjoy trying to figure out who they reminded me of! :)
I didn't dislike the album and there was some decent hooks in there but a combo of the production and the similarity to other bands who I prefer mean I'm unlikely to come back to this one I'm afraid. That said, it's certainly not a bad album but just not quite my cup of tea.
6/10
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