Label: unsigned

Producer: Seven 13 and NERO

Release Date: 2004

This group is comprised of five magnificent musicians that stretch the limits of what is typically expected. This is one of the most shockingly unique tastes of sheer excitement that I have heard for the first time. If ever one could see a spotlighted path that before a spotlighted group (with its intended course to a life of fame and stardom) it is now. The thing is ladies and gentlemen... you need to know why this is a fact..  

The first track on this CD is Devour. The lead vocalist Court Linehan sings with a force and passion that is as intense as Brian Verrochi and Michael Burke’s backing vocals are angelic. The intelligent lyrics of this track breathe a life saving freshness to the wobbling stability of today’s musical progression while the caliber of Amanda Adams keyboard, the precision of Greg Ogan’s drumming, and the Michael Burke guitar riffs that reminisce where it all began, ensure solidity in what can be expected of this group in future.      
        
Apology is the second option on this CD and a good one at that. The haunting harmonies are enough to make a person feel as though their in another state of being. The keyboard playing entices thought provoking tendencies and the magnificent tightness kept together by a percussionary excellence is embraced by a guitar handelment that screams traditional bliss from its handler.          
 
Abuse Me is exactly what it states in its title. The reasons why the feeling of being abused is at hand, the results of what that feeling does to a persons entire being, and the rage of emotions that are brought on by this type of treatment. The band has a very good idea of what it is to be expressive in every instrument played and how to convey a passion in that playing that strikes the listener with the full velocity force of what message they mean to send.
 
Closer to the Edge is a track that starts with a slower tempo while the meaning of it is being laid out on the platter. That slower tempo is then sped into a build up of a more intensified look at the story that is being told. I feel that it would be hurtfully wrong of me not to mention Amanda’s keyboard playing as being one of the most prominent forces in what binds this track together to become what an inescapable thing of beauty it is.  

What I Wouldn't Do is the last but certainly not least of what this CD has to offer. A psychiatrist will always tell a patient that closure is a very important step in letting go of an experience; especially an experience that was fulfilling but short lived. This track is exactly what the doctor ordered. Everything about it spells out a comradery in musicianship that will surely take this group to the far reaches of where they all desire to be.

It has been a pleasure to have reviewed this sampler album and I should hope that there is much more of where it came from and that when there is more it will come my way again. I need to review this kind of music very often. Problem is... I have to wait for Seven 13 to get it to me... but to be fair.... Seven 13 have waited a hell of a long time for me to clear a backlog of CDs just to get to this one! You see, if ever there was teasing in the way an album was distributed it is now. What kind of person would only put five tracks of this calibre on an album…? I’ll tell you… a crazy person that enjoys playing with people’s emotions…with their sense of well being and with their hearts n souls! its just sick ... very sick but I loved every minute of every entire CD rewind!!!   

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