Falling From The Moon
Melodic Rock
2009
| The Band | The Music | The Rest |
| Robbie La Blanc : Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar | 01. I Come Alive | Frontiers Records / FR CD 431 |
| Brian LaBlanc : Vocals, Bass | 02. Falling From The Moon | Runnin' time 47:26 |
| Butch Taylor : Lead Guitar | 03. I Swear To You | |
| Michael Patzig : Lead Guitar | 04. Everything | EAC v0.99pb4 Secure, No C2, Disable Cache |
| Jeff Batter : Keyboards | 05. It's All About the Love | Ape Monkey's Audio 4.06 |
| Kyle Woodring : Drums | 06. Goodbye Summer Goodbye | Winrar 3.90 + 5% Recovery |
| 07. Deep In The Heart | ||
| 08. Don't Take It Away | All Scans@96dpi | |
| 09. Like A Believer | ||
| 10. Light Of The World | size 407MB splitted into 3 files. | |
| 11. I Will | ||
| 12. Fly | ||
| Videoclip "Falling From The Moon" |
Chronique
(Metal-Integral.com)
BLANC FACES est de retour en ce début novembre 2009 avec son nouvel et deuxième album Falling From The Moon.
Je ne connais point le premier de 2005 donc toute comparaison est impossible.
BLANC FACES est le nom d'une formation initiée par deux frères américains, Robbie La BLANC, chanteur et guitariste et Brian La BLANC, chant et basse.
Ils sont accompagnés de Kyle WOODRING (Dennis De YOUNG (STYX), SURVIVOR, John MELLECAMP), Jeff BATTER (CANNATA) aux claviers et Butch TAYLOR et Michael PATZIG en "lead guitars".
Dennis WARD (PINK CREAM 69, KHYMERA) est cité pour le mixage, excellent, quid de la production, parfaite aussi pour ce genre de musique.
La musique, parlons-en justement.
Nous nageons en plein Rock-FM sirupeux à souhait souvent et manquant pour ma part cruellement par moment de caractère et personnalité.
Mais toutes les compositions s'écoutent avec beaucoup de plaisir et certaines se montrent assez intéressantes.
Petit problème pour moi, certains sons de guitares rythmiques ne collent pas au style et sonnent plat et le chant, un peu rauque parfois, ne m'emballent pas trop non plus.
C'est un bon album, tout simplement mais qui me laisse assez insensible et qui manque d'explosion ou de lignes de chant plus sensitives.
Il manque aussi des choeurs.
J'ai le même ressenti que sur les titres les moins intéressants de HONEYMOON SUITE par exemple.
Mais je reste convaincu qu'une frange des aficionados du style pourrait être plus sensible à cette production.
Pour ma part, les derniers BAD HABIT, AOR, FOREIGNER, MASTEDON de cette année sont d'un niveau bien supérieur.
Je vous invite tout de même à jeter une oreille attentive sur cet album car je ne détiens point de vérités absolues, juste un "feeling" un peu absent pour ce Falling From The Moon.
Un album très ancré dans les années 80' et qui emprunte quelques mélodies à cette époque.
Un album qui souffre pour moi d'un certain manque d'originalité mais qui peut être une belle porte d'entrée pour celles et ceux qui découvriront ce style par ce genre d'album.
Review
(LordsOfMetal.nl)
This is the kind of releases I am used in getting from Frontiers Records. And that is pure melodic Rock albums that carry the atmosphere of a previous -but not forgotten- decade(s). BLANC FACES is one of those highly skilled bands spawning these days during which the aforementioned genre is really blossoming. Indeed, there is quite a strong current during this sound and to my surprise there are many bands that can handle the ’burden’ of delivering albums in the vein of JOURNEY, CHICAGO and SURVIVOR among others.
The Blanc brothers gave life to this band somewhere in 2005 when they put together the homonymous and debut BLANC FACES album. The positive response by the press and the audiences during the concerts that followed gave them the boost to come together and write some more music now found in "Falling From The Moon." The songs in this album are the definition of melodic Rock. Crystal clear sound production, the exact distortion in the guitars, mid-to-high pitched vocals and a general up-tempo groove are the main elements here. The keyboards play an almost leading role sharing time with the guitars revealing a hearty JOURNEY backbone as found in "I Come Alive" or in the piano based ballad "Everything." What I really enjoyed during the listening sessions is the US Hard Rock atmosphere spread all around the album mainly in the vein of the late BON JOVI while the piano sounding keyboards justify the TOTO traces present. This music can keep you company in a long journey with you car (especially if you are from the US) or in some club where the not-so-loud music ’dresses’ up the conversation and keeps the beer flowing.
As I said the production is top notch here and it is not a big surprise that Dennis Ward is responsible. He has turned and pushed all the console buttons in the right direction to give this album the clarity of a pure AOR album. You can really sink yourself in the nice melodies and the catchy chorus and -why not?- travel back in time in a decade that at least musically had more passion. No, this is not a Metal album but a really nice treat for all the mid 30s early 40s AOR lovers and a lesson to learn for all the youngsters who have lost themselves in this ’core’ blizzard. "I coming home again, falling from the Moon."
PS: I wonder; can you -still- ’hit on’ a girl with this music? If ’yes’ then try "I Swear To You."
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