{"id":101334,"date":"2023-07-28T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=101334"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:32:50","slug":"ep-review-spectre-lonesome-gambler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-spectre-lonesome-gambler\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECTRE – Lonesome Gambler EP (2023) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPECTRE
Lonesome Gambler EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nDying Victims Productions (2023)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There has been a plethora of bands over the years using the moniker Spectre, but this particular act \u2013 named after founder Will Spectre \u2013 is one I strongly recommend. Hailing from Hobart in Tasmania, Australia\u2019s Spectre taps into that late 70s and early 80s vibe of organic heavy rock.<\/p>\n

Lonesome Gambler offers four excellent tracks, with the CD and cassette versions of the EP also featuring five bonus tracks. Opener is the steady vintage groover \u2018Hero Of The Illusion\u2019, a mid-tempo rocker channelling New Wave Of British Heavy Metal with its evocative lyrics and Will Spectre\u2019s smooth croons. As always seems to be the case with such throwback rock, Spectre lines each track with a somewhat eerie edge. Whether this is intentional I\u2019m not so sure, but it\u2019s there and it works.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wolfbane\u2019 ups the pace slightly, but what I really enjoy about the EP are the streaks of cosmic synth which sizzle through the darkened blends of creaky rock and nostalgic metal. It\u2019s all constructed in rather simple yet fluid fashion, catchy 70s rock never a million miles away from, say, Blue \u00d6yster Cult, or even Ashbury, where each subtle beat brims with an almost summery glint. The title track and the harder \u2018Turning The Wheel\u2019 snake wondrously with their melodies, the latter a shining example of the use of the synths.<\/p>\n

Spectre should be proud of what they have achieved here; a mesmeric slab of breezy hard rock tinged with psych nuances but bristling with vintage vigour.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPECTRELonesome Gambler EP Dying Victims Productions (2023)Rating: 8\/10 There has been a plethora of bands over the years using the moniker Spectre, but this particular act \u2013 named after founder Will Spectre \u2013 is one I strongly recommend. Hailing from Hobart in Tasmania, Australia\u2019s Spectre taps into that late 70s and early 80s vibe of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-spectre-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101335,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101334\/revisions\/101335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}