Since formation of the band I'm at it and have followed all change with strong interest. From Country scaffold that was once more enriched with rock or lightweight Metal Attitude, or just the "Low Voltage" experiment, it was more. So you can blame no standstill of the band at least.
The band steadily strongly distinguished by the fact that she drives a rail which is unique. It starts with their experimental Country "Crossover Mix" and ended in their really cool clothes style with cowboy hats, boots and the rib shirts. The whole rose sharply from the pop pabulum from who has the music scene under control. Anyone who has from the very beginning was will perhaps remember the concerts where the "YEEHAW" brought to burn the halls).
As early as the last album you could tell the poplastigen influence in some songs. Since the "Voice of" history awareness of the band grew rapidly and hence pushed soon to feel like that was worn with the poplastigeren elements of the broad masses into account. Nevertheless, the album was still very good even if the BossHoss clientele the very beginning felt encountered in some places a bit in front of the head.
Now "Flames of Fame" is on the market and after I have the album the first few times up and down is one, the first time since the first album mixed feelings come up in me.
Even though I'm still a fan of the band, I want to do my subjective impression on the matter known here. What the band has actually awarded always strong, a little skeleton was the country that was sometimes more, sometimes less strongly represented. That seems to be very thinned out until gone here.
Generally, I fell more than in the other albums on some "deposits" slightly uncomfortable, but like others feel differently. In a song "Sirens" occurred which soundwise act simply out of place. On the last song the Reffrains came somewhat incongruous, therefore, when the voice deep in the "If you mess with BossHoss you mess with God" changed. Although the Reffrain simply "cool" sounds, at least on paper, but the "deep" voice makes this clearly broken.
Now I would like to stress that I like the album, it is (good) become and I mean so, although I have highlighted the criticisms. The mesh of rock and pop with other influences is placed neatly in most places, and remains active until some songs quite consistent. Especially the song "Bull Power" came right away and was good with his Metalallueren memories of "Do or Die" arise. But I think it's a song too little to the so strong heritage of tape to keep them alive.
Unfortunately I have to that "YEEHAW" Feeling (the first hour) say in conclusion somehow gone. While the mix of styles still sounds good, and also the words "COWBOY" sound in the texts even after, but you get the feeling that no longer as "bucks" the bull in the ear canal to put it with the Rodeo language as the time the case was.
