This is album number four for another one of the Frontiers’ projects that gives a moment in the spotlight to their in house producer, songwriter, and keyboard player Alessandro Del Vecchio. The only song he doesn’t contribute to (writing wise) is Crime Of The Century. If you know anything of these Frontiers projects, they all seem to have that same footprint where they all sound a bit like Journey. Well, thats how it comes across to me. I mean Dean Castronovo alone makes it all sound like Journey just with his phrasing, so they don’t have to try to hard here.
You may think I’m going to do a big dump all over this record, but I’m not. The album is a very slick sounding melodic rock behemoth and you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s 1984. Anything that Dean sings is gold, he could sing a Chinese take out menu and it would be immense, and Joel Hoekstra on guitar just kills it. You could pick any track as your favourite and you’d be happy, but I’m going for Need Each Other. Nope, it’s not a rocker as such, just a well written song where Dean’s vocals are awesome.
This pressing is surprisingly really good. Hopefully Frontiers have got to grips with all their pressing problems.
9/10 from The Grooveman.
