Band:	Lauren Harris
Album:	Calm Before The Storm
Style:	Hard rock
Release date:	2008
A review by:	Jeff

01. Steal Your Fire
02. Your Turn
03. Get Over It
04. Like It Or Not
05. From The Bottom To The Top
06. Let Us Be
07. Hurry Up
08. Come On Over
09. Hit Or Miss
10. See Through
11. You Say
12. Natural Thing

Do you know Lauren Harris? Ho come on, I'm sure that you know who she is and that you've even probably seen her when she and her band were the opening act of Iron Maiden's last tour. No need one more time to say who she is really and let's focus a bit more on her music and first album, "Calm Before The Storm".

"Calm Before The Storm" begins with two really good songs, "Steal Your Fire" and "Your Turn" which clearly sound Hard Rock. At first and after that I've listened to those songs I thought that we were in front of something good and honest, some kind of 80's Hard FM with a female singer. Unfortunately, only some few songs can be considered as good Hard Rock because the third track (and some other following songs) are pure boring Pop Punk Rock a la Avril Lavigne? Just listen to "Get Over It" and you'll quickly understand what I mean this is simply terrible in comparison of some other songs of the album. It's sad really because Lauren is accompanied by really good musicians (real Hard Rockers) and she is not too bad even if her voice is not the best of the galaxy. But I have to be honest I simply dislike this Pop Rock for teenagers and I really think that Lauren Harris and her band should try to focus a bit more on their Hard Rock influences to compose an album that a lot of metalheads could love. This band definitely is not bad and Lauren Harris who is, like her father, a real leader and someone charismatic on stage should try to play something heavier and not so Pop.

Of course "Calm Before The Storm" is really well produced and the performance of the musicians is quite impressive. Definitely the Lauren Harris band features some masters of guitars who are able to play great soli, but the problem of this album is that its clearly lacks of energy and power. I just hope that, in the future, the band will try to do something more like White Snake instead of some "Pop starlet" music.

"Calm Before The Storm" has some good passages, that's simply too bad that some songs are too Pop and commercial? Let's hope that in the future the band will be able to produce something a bit more homogenous and of course Metal. If they can do it, I'm sure that metalheads will start to follow them but if it doesn't have to change, then only some teenagers and Pop Rock fans will find a real interest in the music of the band.