{"id":21179,"date":"2014-08-12T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2014-08-12T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:28:14","slug":"album-review-miss-behaviour-double-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-miss-behaviour-double-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"MISS BEHAVIOUR – Double Agent (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MISS BEHAVIOUR
Double Agent<\/strong><\/span>
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\nAOR Heaven (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 5.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Melodic Swedish rockers Miss Behaviour are another of these sickly sweet AOR bands all too eager to sugarcoat my soul with their fancy harmonies and 80s throwbacks.<\/p>\n

The band already have two full-length albums to their name \u2013 Heart Of Midwinter<\/em> (2006) and Last Woman Standing<\/em> (2011) \u2013 and are now back with third opus, Double Agent<\/em>, which features the line-up of Sebastian Roos (vocals), Erik Heikne (guitar), Nicky Bloom (bass), Magnum Jacobs (drums) and Henrik Sproge (keyboards).<\/p>\n

Now, while I\u2019m a bit of a bitch for such gloriously flamboyant hard rock dynamics, I\u2019m none too overawed by this act. While the band is most certainly capable of injecting elements of the heartfelt, the soulful and the uptempo, I\u2019m less convinced by segments of this composition; I\u2019m rarely moved by the sway of certain numbers which seem to float by without any real effect.<\/p>\n

For all of its spine-tingling, scarf-waving anthems (\u2018Silver Rain\u2019) there seems to be a glittery yet insubstantial rocker coated in cheese (\u2018On With The Show\u2019), giving the impression of a band which relies too much on the flimsy rather than the forceful.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that it\u2019s all bad, but with sprightly rockers such as the title track there is just an air of the polished that proves that all that glitters is not gold. The same could also be said for the sickly sweet pomp of \u2018Cold Response\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, when the band does inject that extra ounce of oomph we have a collection of decent tracks; \u2018Magical Feeling\u2019 is a tight, upbeat rocker featuring some sterling guitar work, and the aching strains of ballad \u2018Corporation Arms\u2019 really does shed Sebastian Roos in good light as his vocal takes on a more soulful grate, but this is simply a characteristic that comes all too infrequently for my liking. The synth-driven \u2018Edge Of The World\u2019 is a superb heavy rocker, but \u2018Don\u2019t Let It End\u2019 is a turgid bubble-gum pop rocker just way too corny for my liking as it comes complete with what seems to be such a contemporary shroud that I\u2019m blinded by its glimmer.<\/p>\n

\u2018Midnight Runner\u2019 does, however, find a middle ground between the modern pomp and 80s-styled croon, but if I had to pick a favourite from this rather messy batch of inconsistency then I\u2019d have to go for \u2018The Cause Of Liberty\u2019, a slow-burner of a track which is brimmed full of soul. The throbbing rhythms of \u2018Dancing With Danger\u2019 give \u2018The Cause Of Liberty\u2019 a run for its money, but even so, it\u2019s an album that proves to be a sum of many parts and for every good turn there appears to be a dodgy corner.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still yet to be convinced by Miss Behaviour, who for the most part I find extremely frustrating in their ability to become consistent. At times all too flaky, Double Agent<\/em> is very much an opus that leads a double life.<\/p>\n

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

MISS BEHAVIOURDouble Agent AOR Heaven (2014)Rating: 5.5\/10 Melodic Swedish rockers Miss Behaviour are another of these sickly sweet AOR bands all too eager to sugarcoat my soul with their fancy harmonies and 80s throwbacks. The band already have two full-length albums to their name \u2013 Heart Of Midwinter (2006) and Last Woman Standing (2011) \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-miss-behaviour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","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=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21211,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}