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Status: Single
City: Stockholm
State: Stockholms län
Country: SE
Signup Date: 8/4/2006
Thursday, November 01, 2007 
Lordsofmetal.nl wrote: (Rating: 82/100)
 For a number of years it has been kind of quiet around the talented Swedish melodic rock band House Of Shakira. After creating quite an impact in 1997 with the release of their debut album 'Lint' (which is re-released in 2005 by the way), both follow-up records 'On The Verge' (from 1998) and 'III' (from 2000) were nothing more than average copies of 'Lint'. In 2004 the band got signed by Lion Music and the mighty fine record 'First Class' was released. The high quality level that was to be found on that album is continued on this 'Retoxed', which is again a very good release.
The new material of House Of Shakira radiates a certain freshness, which was nowhere to be found on a number of their previous records. Maybe that it had something to do with their "renewed" way of song-writing, but the fact remains that 'Retoxed' is a very enjoyable album to listen to.

The melody lines have a high catchiness factor, are easy to sing along to and stick in your head after just a few listens, all signals for me that they've done a good job in the song-writing area.
Best examples of this are 'Small Town', 'No Faith' and closing track 'Turkish Nights'.

The band consists of very capable musicians, of which especially solo guitarist Mats Hallstensson stands out become of his great soloing on a number of the tracks. Furthermore the band has a great singer in Andreas Eklund, who really excels in closing track 'Turkish Nights' (for me absolutely the best song to be found on the album!). Also the harmony vocals sound very professional, which only increases the accessibility of the material. I honestly didn't expect anymore that House Of Shakira would be capable of recording such a strong record.
Recommended!
6:10 PM
 
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