Frontiers Music [Release date : 11.07.25]
For many years, Double Vision were a Foreigner covers band, as the band name might suggest.
They’ve now been given the opportunity by the Frontiers’ label to make their own way.
It’s fronted by gun-for-hire vocalist, Chandler Mogel, who’s provided vocals for a few lesser known rock bands, but earns a living mainly as a session singer.
The album is a long way from Foreigner, and maybe that’s what they wanted. The songs are simple (with titles like ‘Love Could Rule’, ‘I Know the Way’ and ‘Silence Is Louder’, they couldn’t be anything else), maybe simplistic at times, but generally catchy and they don’t outstay their welcome. They could’ve come with a “best before 1985” label.
There are times – like on the distinctly retro flavoured songs ‘Youphoria’ and ‘A Stranger’s Face’- when the band seem to ignore the genre’s rich and fertile past, and find sanctuary still in the over familiarity of last century lyrics. Mogel’s voice is strong. You can understand why he’s an in demand session singer, it’s just not distinctive enough to carry the weight expected of him.
That said, he does a convincing job on the balladic ‘Look Out For Me’. If they’d added a gospel choir on the second half we would have welcomed it.
Another ballad, ‘The Man You Make Me’ again tries hard to shake off the kind of AOR cliches that had taken root in the eighties, musically and lyrically, and almost succeeds. It has a touch of sophistication in the production and the arrangement, qualities that others tracks lack.
But only ‘Church Of The Open Mind’ comes anywhere near Foreigner greatness. Guitars get cranked up, they add Mick Jones calibre keyboard parts, and Mogel reins it back a little. Sometimes underdone adds more than overdone. ***
Review by Brian McGowan
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