24-7 Spyz - Face The Day - review
24-7 Spyz - Face The Day - review
Tracklist
01. Unknown Wellknown02. Face The Day
03. Waiting For The Sun
04. Soul Sucker
05. Ride To Nowhere
06. Faithless
07. The Saturday Song
08. Angel
09. Blues For Dimebag
10. Running
11. Anything For You
12. Plastique
13. Bad Reputation [Thin Lizzy cover]
14. Stand! [Sly And The Family Stone cover]
A review by
jupitreas September 18, 2006
Compared to the band's previous albums, Face The Day is quite a lot less aggressive and there is a larger ratio of R&B, reggae and soul here than ever before. Not that this is a bad thing. As a result of this focus, the album sounds very fluid and comfortable, as if it was the recording of a jam session. The musicians are all extremely proficient and they are obviously having great fun playing together, whether they are laying down the heavy grooves and hardcore gang-shouts in the title track or performing the romantic soul ballad "The Saturday Song". As a matter of fact, I think more bands should explore the areas of the latter song - the vocal chord progressions are unusual and original for a metal song and the heavy guitars contribute the sort of dynamics that ordinary soul is rarely able to achieve.
Unfortunately, the comfortable and playful vibe of this record is also its biggest problem. It sounds more like a collection of random songs and outtakes than an album that makes sense as a whole. Previous 24-7 Spyz albums were much better in this respect so I count this as a flaw. Still, despite this it is very nice to hear these guys making music again since they tackle areas too often ignored by the metal mainstream.
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damn, I didn't know they were still aorund. I absolutely loved them back in the day. I'd better go and listen to their old stuff again especially Harder than You and Gumbo Millenium were great as far as I can remember. I saw them live a couple of times, once eevn opening a clubgig for Bad Brains.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Posts: 40071 Written by [user id=3005] on 18.09.2006 at 16:35 The best albums to check out are IMO Harder than You, and then Gumbo Millenium.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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I second that, the new album isnt as good as the classics but its still very listenable.
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Posts: 6663 Written by [user id=3005] on 18.09.2006 at 16:35 If you havent already, listen to Bad Brains albums like "I agains I" and "Quickness". There are a LOT of reggae elements there.
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i just checked this band out in their myspace.com page.. they have 4 tracks posted there ... The Band is pretty interesting and very defferint especially with the strong reggae elements.. I remember living color and fishbone from back in the day and I wasnt into that genre at that moment... but now i dont mind giving these guys I shot if their album passes my way
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Seen them live in Eindhoven when I was living in Holland in the 90's, very good on the night but the singer didn't endear himself to the crowd when he asked everyone to stop smoking pot..... clown!
---- Kill And Eat The Weak!
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