I may have possibly mentioned this before but here goes again; there's far too much stuff out there of a similar ilk. Far too much, to the extent that it's becoming difficult to find the words to accurately describe the differences between the myriad of releases. At the moment my inbox includes the new platters from N.O.W (obviously), Diamond Dawn and Shannon, all of whom play a similar type of melodic rock. I like them all, they're all fairly anachronistic and really don't have much of a place in today's musical landscape but they're pretty good. Does that count for all three reviews? One of the obvious touchstones for N.O.W is Foreigner and "Strong Enough" would have probably been a contender in the mid-1980s as it is a quality power ballad and vocalist experienced Philip Bardowell gives it his best Lou Gramm/Kelly Hansen. The middle of the album is the strongest part as the excellent "Mary Ann" follows "Strong Enough" and the PR bluff's Boston comparisons actually seem not to be pie-in-the-sky for once. It's also fabulous to see a saxophone make an appearance on that particular song; there can never be enough horns in melodic rock. Generally Escape Music don't release crap and this is another good release from them although I suspect that fans of the melodic rock genre would already be aware of this and be suitably alerted to this fact.
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