Glad to see you all get your fix
I streamed the album and my initial thoughts:
Ghost Town - As before - still a grower. I bop along to it (never will LOVE the disco cowboy stuff though) - another note by 11 year old daughter (not the same one I talked about previously) asked ME if I heard the new Adam Lambert song Ghost Town. I said yes, have you? She said she had heard it on the radio. I asked a lot? She said...Not a LOT a LOT but a few times. She likes it.
The Original High - Totally not my cuppa. Adam loves this stuff and so does his fans and it's a very competent good track - successful at what it is shooting for so there's that
Another Lonely Night - My favorite of the previously "leaked" stuff. Love it except the moo. Sorry, I know some find it endearing but I hate it. It reminds me of a couple of things Queen did that made great tracks less listenable (the screeching feedback in the middle of Sheer Heart Attack and the record scratching on Calling All Girls for example) but it is a great track.
Underground - well sung, not something I'd put on repeat but decent enough.
There I Said It - This is what Adam does best. He should really do a ballad album if I'm honest. This is a great track (the "grown ass man" seems a bit out of place if I'm honest but the rest works REALLY well) My second favorite on the album.
Rumors - Like Underground- it's a decent track but not something I was wowed with.
Evil In The Night - This one has grown on me since it "leaked". This has got some great funky guitar parts and it's pretty groovin' I would say this is what he wanted the stuff on Trespassing to sound like but didn't have the necessary ingredients.
Lucy - Oh yeah definitely unsurprisingly my favorite. It just proves to me what great musicians backing a great vocalist can do. What I mean by that is that song in and of itself isn't heads above other tracks on the album, but having Adam sing it and then have a guitarist like Brian wailing behind it it just makes the track stand out. The very beginning does sound Dirty Dianish....
Things I Didn't Say - Now I know it hurts itself for me to have to listen to this after Lucy but it does validate my point. This is the
"coldest" track so far - the most like Trespassing, the most computerized track of the album thus far. To be fair the consistency of production does help keep it above water so to speak. It does have some great Adam vocals towards the ending....
The Light - Better. A stripped back track works better with the electronics.
Heavy Fire - Another decent ballad Not quite There I Said It, but it has a kind of slow burn to it that I dig
All in all - Max did a good job at least solidifying a sound. It's hard for me to review this as anything negative I have to say about it comes from my lack of interest in this type of music overall. I'm not the demo he's looking to score with. I still hope that he does an album with Queen one day because I think it could work VERY well. I like it better than Trespassing for certain. I still think I like FYE better overall but that could change with a few listens.
