In "The Great Escape" (2008) I can distinguish after eight Hear no piece from another. Nothing gets stuck, nothing is significant, not a single great song. Even the Rifles single "I Could Never Lie" was the beginning of 2008 a bitter disappointment - and rightly so, it is not even included on the album "The Great Escape". At first hearing all sounds seem familiar - the buzzing guitars, the driving beat, the bonds at Mod, even ska and in the late seventies, à la The Clash or The Jam! Yes, the intro, you are always hopeful. But then nothing much happens. Standard-Brit-pop in all tempos rumbles three or four minutes and gene Nowhere --- end of the story. Tunes to sing along? Choruses with barbs? Wrong! No, I never expected, not after such a furious debut as "No Love Lost". Of course, "The Great Escape" is not completely terrible and completely inaudible. But just the nice, fat, radio-friendly Average spoil my work.
Properly failed on "The Great Escape" all the production. Here you can be seduced by a sleek, transparent crunchy rock sound to a real sound bombastic. Strings, brass, Mellotron, handclaps fill the great void of Wall Of Sound almost to bursting - The Rifles have no blunders made. It's a shame.
When The Dead 60s in 2007 their second album "Time To Take Sides" vorlegten, it they can not substantially on the parameters of its predecessor (ditto. 2005) removed, they were punished by the evil music criticism for it. After the sale success failed to materialize, the band broke up at the end. I regret that to this day, The Dead 60s will, however, keep it in your memory. A departure in dignity for The Rifles after this disappointing follow-up - and therefore completely in the wake of Mando Diao or Jet - no longer an option. In the third match, the tape should get him into existence, I'll check it all, because maybe this surprise follows another, and maybe it's a good time. Tomorrow Never Knows.
