04/03/02

A / HI-FI SERIOUS

London band A return with an album chock full of up tempo happy songs laden with more hooks than a trawler on a fishing expedition and it makes such a change from all the serious Metal around at the moment.

Starting off with the single "Nothing" the CD doesn’t let up until it’s finished and if you like the single you will like the rest of the CD as it is representative of the rest of the tracks. "Starbucks" and "Took It Away" are so good you will be singing along with them after only one listen and the latter features digital scratching that sounds just like your CD player has gone up the spout, but trust me it’s supposed to sound like that.

This great piece of Pop Metal is made for listening in fine sunny weather and you can almost feel the sun just listening to it, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t Rock because it does, one listen to the title track will convince you of this and will keep the most ardent headbanger happy. There are times when you want to listen to some happy metal and there are so few bands that do this which means that A has the market to themselves.

TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 45 mins + 12 Tracks