{"id":74453,"date":"2018-09-14T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=74453"},"modified":"2018-11-26T17:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T17:20:30","slug":"album-review-mia-klose-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-mia-klose-stronger\/","title":{"rendered":"MIA KLOSE – Stronger (2018) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIA KLOSE
Stronger<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSelf-released (2018)<\/span>
Rating: 3\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sweden\u2019s Mia Klose has attracted a strong fan-base for a young lass since her debut album, London<\/em>, emerged in 2012, and she\u2019s certainly put the hours in supporting the likes of Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row) and Reckless Love. So I was rather looking forward to listening to this one, after all I\u2019ve always had a penchant for the 80s female hard rock sound, ranging from Lita Ford to Lee Aaron, and even Lisa Dominique.<\/p>\n

Mia\u2019s band consists of Jonny Nonsense (guitar), Kalle Arheden (guitar), C-Rexx (bass) and Henry Rogers (drums), while former member and guitarist Jonny Scaramanga contributed to the song writing on this latest album.<\/p>\n

Stronger<\/em>, in spite of the rather mundane title, offers up ten rather polished hard rock tracks which, sadly, at times drift in to an all-too contemporary vibe, and I actually blame this on the mixing and mastering of Tony Wilson (the founder of BBC Radio 1\u2019s legendary Friday Rock Show<\/em>), because the reality is that all-too polished fa\u00e7ade just hinders any raw talent Mia expresses.<\/p>\n

This issue arises immediately with the cringe-worthy pop-cum-rock migraine of \u2018Not The One\u2019, which is only steeled by the lead work. But other than that this is the sort of modern pop slop that could be attributed to any watery artist holding up the American charts, and that\u2019s a shame because behind such gloss there\u2019s clearly a talented performer.<\/p>\n

\u2018Not The One\u2019 just feels too sugary and sweet, while the bubble-gum rock of \u2018Living In A Fantasy\u2019 is equally tepid. I sense that the creators have possibly attempted an 80s vibe, but from tracks one to ten we get innocent power-pop that\u2019s out of date as soon as it finishes; bring back Robin Beck I say!<\/p>\n

The title track brings an edgy guitar lick and nice plodding drum, but Mia\u2019s vocals just don\u2019t match as she worms her way through those atrocious lyrics. And the theme of the banal continues with the meagre \u2018Winning The Game\u2019, the trite \u2018Gimme Gimme\u2019 and a whole host of other tunes that\u2019d be better suited to the voice of a 12-year-old.<\/p>\n

Why those in charge just can\u2019t let Mia let rip is beyond me. Unfortunately, this is just your by-numbers, half-baked, semi-metallic Americanised plop culminating in such watery downfalls as \u2018One More Night\u2019 and the drab \u2018Time To Rock\u2019, which closes this uneventful ceremony of clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

I find it bizarre that in the press release Crashd\u00efet guitarist Martin Sweet (who mixed one of the tracks) is quoted as saying: \u201cThis brings me back to 1989-90. I hear some Firehouse and Vixen at their peak in there.\u201d<\/em> Well, I must have put the wrong album on then! But he also commented: \u201cHowever, there\u2019s a freshness to the sound that feels more 2018.\u201d<\/em> And that\u2019s the major problem; Mia Klose\u2019s latest effort showcases everything that\u2019s wrong with modern music as we\u2019re submitted to another generic, watered down and soon-to-be brainwashed \u201cstar\u201d, and it\u2019s not her fault. Mia has simply been caught up in the machine that subdues talent in favour of sales.<\/p>\n

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

MIA KLOSEStronger Self-released (2018)Rating: 3\/10 Sweden\u2019s Mia Klose has attracted a strong fan-base for a young lass since her debut album, London, emerged in 2012, and she\u2019s certainly put the hours in supporting the likes of Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row) and Reckless Love. So I was rather looking forward to listening to this one, after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-mia-klose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453","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=74453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74455,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74453\/revisions\/74455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}