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7 Rivers - Path Of Fire

Artist:	7 Rivers
Title:	Path Of Fire
Label:	7 Rivers 7R7088
Length(s):	46 minutes
Year(s) of release:	2002
Month of review:	[05/2002]

Line up

Mike Boisclair - drums, percussion
Ted Handrich - lead and backing vocals
Mike Groove - guitars, bass, percussion, backing vocals

Tracks

1)	You	3.39
2)	Aeroplane	3.10
3)	Lady Luck	3.04
4)	Michael Doesn't Live Her Anymore	4.22
5)	Halloween	6.12
6)	Flood	3.26
7)	We Never See The End	3.51
8)	Death Of 2	4.37
9)	Shadows	3.59
10)	Mr. And Mrs. Reed	3:34
11)	7 Rivers	6:11

Summary

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The music

Despite claiming a semblance with progressive dinosaurs as Pink Floyd and Moody Blues, this album is very much a collection of songs in a singer/songwriter or poprock idiom. Your typical song would be dominated by an acoustic guitar, straight off drumming, bass and most of all Handrich' dominant yet plain and slightly nasal voice. The somewhat naive and wavering quality of this voice started irritating me somewhere around track four the first listen, so I guess you get a good feeling about how much I enjoyed playing this disc. Of course, this wasn't exactly helped by any difference between the songs being completely wiped out by the flat performance, although electric guitaristics, usually entering as the song picks up, try to hide that. Best bit of the album is the instrumental mid-section of the bands anthem 7 Rivers, but the finishing vocal part following sums up this album a lot better: rather bland stuff from which you'd best steer away.

Conclusion

See above.