Well, back to Space Elevator and “II.” This effort is about rock. I mean the kind of rock it used to be done in the 1980s. There are songs like “The One That Got Away” that are tipically from the early 1980s. A bit funky, a bit dancy. With that outstanding guitar solo just because it constrasts. A real Daryl Hall & John Oates piece. But Space Elevator can get rough. Opening track, “Take the Pain” and “Crazies (Take Me Home)” are much heavier than what Bon Jovi play nowadays. They please the listener who likes hard rock. “Take the Pain,”for instance, has a delicious flavour of Heart.
I know that for the hardcore headbanger, the one who listen to death and black metal, Space Elevator isn’t really the kind of music they want to listen. For me, though, that lived the 1980s musical diversity, and used to listen to the radio of that time searching for some musical relevance, Space Elevator please. Guys, there are intelligence and musical competence outside the world of Metal. We all agree it’s not often, but there are. “We Can Fly” is a delicious track if you’re not that hardminded. Space Elevator “II” is the pure delight when times were a bit more musical. Times when radios had a bit more diversity, not only the same tasteless music we’ve been listening for almost forty years. And The Duchess is a great singer.
Space Elevator “II” will hit the sky on May 25th via SPV / Steamhammer.
Track Listing:
- Take The Pain
- Talk Talk
- World Of Possibilities
- The One That Got Away
- Crazies (Take Me Home)
- We Can Fly (ARO Mix)
- All This Time
- Far Away Boy
- Lucky Girl
- Keep Waiting
- W.Y.T.A.T.
- Queen For a Day
Watch “We Can Fly” official video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!