Solemn Novena – Silver
Before me is a 3-Track single of SOLEMN NOVA. This band is performing a good gothic rock musi. Immediatly you will be catched up by the warm sound of this record. Sometimes people have a hard time to get into a record, but this is not the case here. Just jump in!
All the three songs are very good composed. Their essence is the great catchy voice which leads you through all the songs and make you smile while listening to it. However, songs are very good and well performed, but two of them don’t go too deep under your skin. It’s just the vocals whichs saves everything and makes this CD enjoyable. The song Silver itself really sounds like the band LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT composed it. This is the very best song at the album and the only one of the three which touches your soul here. The reason is, that Tell me your secrets and Sirens are overloaded. If you compare all the songs, you’ll recognize that Silver just contains 3 or 4 elements (not to be confused with instruments or voices) can be heard at the same time. Sirens and Secrets do you use much more elements, which is very hard to mix down and results in a warm porridge. Example: twin voices, warm atmosphere keyboards, drums, guitar picking, whispers. Its too much. In that case they should have kicked off the atmo keys. Finally this makes everything sound a bit like EUROPE, sorry to say that 
However, this is a record I really enjoy partially. Silver is a very great song and I strongly believe these Belfast guys will go their way. They have been labeled as “Best unsigned” band and such by wellknown mags, I think they will make it. However, if they want to get fans like me on board, they need to sort out their compositions. And use more of their strong male voice instead of all this heavingly stuff. I mean, if you have a warm voice, you have one. There is no sense in singing the hardrock passages. More rock guys, more rock! I’ll keep an eye on you!
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