Frontiers [Release date : 13.10.24]
With imaginative cover art that could be taken from a John Connolly novel, Find Me – Robbie LaBlanc and Daniel Flores – deliver their fifth studio album.
And it’s reassuringly familiar. It’s good to hear one of today’s bands being unafraid to rummage around in the past, looking for cool musical stylings, and accordingly, it’s largely a compendium of familiar melodic rock riffs, with the duo squeezing out a bunch of carefully crafted genre songs.
For the most part the album is a bracing breath of fresh air that wears its influences well.
Jim (Survivor) Peterik has contributed three songs to the album. ‘I See You In Everyone’ (from Survivor’s Vital Signs album) and ‘Love Always Finds A Way’ are agile and able anachronistic tilts at FM radio rotation. The duo seem to generate a new energy with this material, at times reminding us of Styx and Harem Scarem, as much as they do Survivor.
The third Peterik song ‘Walk Through The Fire’, has a bombastic sound merging with a sense of the transcendent, “with the will to carry on to the limit and beyond, like heroes we walk through the fire”. Like so much of Peterik’s material nowadays, it’s a fusion of the romantic and the quasi religious, without making a claim either way.
In fairness, a couple more tracks also strike an Eighties’ melodic rock pose. The band’s anthemic, stadium filling style on ‘Distant Lovers’ and ‘Nightbound’ doesn’t provide massive hits on first listen, but after a few spins you’ll be mainlining these on a regular basis.
It’s hard to get Signal and Unruly Child out of your mind when listening to these two.
No bad thing.
Five albums in, it’s pretty clear that these two musicians possess an enviable musical skillset. They deliver Nightbound like a passport to a land you once heard of. And now that you’re there, you’d kinda like to stay. ***1/2
Review by Brian McGowan
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