Band : Spin Gallery
Album title : Embrace
Label : Frontiers Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux
Release Date : 04/12/2009
Release : CD

Follow-up for their first album that came out in 2004, here's the second album by Spin Gallery. 

Whereas on the first album they made good use of 3 different vocalists,  this time Kristoffer Lagerstrom only enlisted the help from Dan Reed and Robin Beck to do a duet. Tommy Denander being the second collaborator on this album.  They also enlisted the help from Glen Marks on drums, and Marika Wilsted on cello. Musicwise : think vintage Toto, Mr. Mister, Giant, Cannata and even Yes (especially the vocals). The songs are not what you would describe as heavy, let alone heavy metal, you can't even call them hard rock.  Melodic hard rock might be close, but pop rock seems to be the adequate description. Now this might put some of you off of buying this album.  But don't judge them to early.  Just listen to what finely crafted songs they have written.  This has class written all over them.  This is the ideal music, not to bang your head of, but to wind down after a long and tiring workday, just to relieve the stress.

85/100

Erik Morren.