{"id":22594,"date":"2014-10-13T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=22594"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:09:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T21:09:19","slug":"album-review-daylight-robbery-falling-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-daylight-robbery-falling-back-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"DAYLIGHT ROBBERY – Falling Back To Earth (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
Falling Back To Earth<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSolar Flare (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the second studio album from UK rockers Daylight Robbery, following on from 2011\u2019s Cross Your Heart<\/em>. The Birmingham-based quintet offers up soaring vocal tones, interesting group harmonies and polished musicianship, but as is so often the case it\u2019s a sound that leaves me rather cold.<\/p>\n

Falling Back To Earth<\/em> is the sort of opus that should appeal to a lot of people as it\u2019s rather gentle on the ears; pop-edged and at times hinting at the majestic and progressive, but a touch lightweight for my liking. The main force within the band is vocalist Tony Nicholl, who also plays guitar alongside Mark Carleton, but for me his energetic and often soulful voice is wasted here because the music drifts along without any real punch.<\/p>\n

Only a handful of tracks stand out, like \u2018I\u2019ll Be Seeing You Again\u2019 with its infectious chorus, but it\u2019s still a case of cheese-ridden melody. However, it\u2019s not half as bad as the anthemic \u2018Scream Out Loud\u2019, which features some truly terrible lyrics and a neo-Gothic pomp. \u201cRaise your hands, we will be heard\u201d<\/em> states Nicholl, but the guitars just seem lost in the mix of Sheena Shea (TNT, Magnum, Robert Plant) and Chris Miller\u2019s drums are mere powder-puff taps as they play second fiddle to the whirring keyboards of David Billingham.<\/p>\n

The overall result is a kind of dramatic yet rarely emphatic damp squib of an opus that trundles along in sickly fashion. The album only reaches some sort of potency with the edgier \u2018Red Lights\u2019 and \u2018Samarah Never Sleeps\u2019 with its darkly-tinged orchestration and half-hearted power prowess. But too many times I\u2019m finding myself losing interest in what appears as a sub-standard Magnum-influenced brand of middle of the road plod rock; except without even a hint of plod!<\/p>\n

And so, with its airy mix and all too delicate production, Daylight Robbery\u2019s next step on the ladder is one riddled with flaws and all too timid execution. There are times I\u2019m left aching for a steelier solo or a fist of fire to take this to the next level, but what I\u2019m left with is a distinctly average album with all too few highs. \u201cI wonder if you\u2019ll sleep tonight\u201d<\/em> asks Nicholl, and after this I probably won\u2019t… sorry.<\/p>\n

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

DAYLIGHT ROBBERYFalling Back To Earth Solar Flare (2014)Rating: 5\/10 This is the second studio album from UK rockers Daylight Robbery, following on from 2011\u2019s Cross Your Heart. The Birmingham-based quintet offers up soaring vocal tones, interesting group harmonies and polished musicianship, but as is so often the case it\u2019s a sound that leaves me rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-daylight-robbery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594","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=22594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22635,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22594\/revisions\/22635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}