Customer Reviews

Ship of Light (Incl. 4 Bonus Tracks)

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Reeta-Leena Korhola's vibrato free voice haunts throughout this album of adult synth pop "like spring's sunbeam after the long, dark, sunless winter time". Fast Lane is a twinkling chiming driving song with an urgent guitar clicking away in the background. Man of Stone is mid tempo but still insistent with a haunting theramin in the background. We like.

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this band. They just keep getting better and better.

BEST SONGS:
Sound Of Love
Fast Lane
Man Of Stone
Beautiful My Monster

Certainly the album has a number of decent songs, but there's something vaguely dreary about the whole affair. It almost feels like an obligation had to be met, like they were just going through the motions in order to have something to release to the public.

I suppose part of the problem is that there hasn't been a whole lot of evolution over the course of three albums. It wouldn't necessarily be a problem if it weren't for the fact that the first one, Country Falls, weren't the strongest. That album, on the whole, was professional and evocative. Ship of Light feels more contrived.

On a final note, what the hell is going on with that persistent 3-note chime in We Shall Burn Bright? What is it doing there? It doesn't sync up with anything. Is it intentional? If so, it sure sounds like a mistake. Perhaps there was some intended effect, but I'm totally missing it.

I give Husky Rescue credit for coming up with some hauntingly beautiful music on their first two albums, but not on this, their third. The way the music is pieced together sounds far more amateurish and less interesting than their previous efforts. The songs also suffer from two major ailments that outweigh the deficiencies in the music, which is terribly cheesy lyrics that are redundantly repeated, and the female vocalist who makes the terribly cheesy lyrics sound even more so, because she's limited in vocal range and the way she sings often sounds like she's singing to little children. At times she almost sounds bored and lazy, and so do the musicians.

Their first album Country Falls was by far the best. The music was first rate and the female vocalist lent a more seductive tone that really added to the songs. The second album had some good stuff, but it also suffered from the problems I've stated above. They seemed to have handed the mic over to the female and never got it back, because their was little of the vocal diversity that made the first album so interesting. This third album carries on the problems of the second and magnifies them for the entire album. It doesn't have one song on it that I like. It's sad really, because I've been looking forward to hearing the band progress past the dreamy magical hippie garden where the butterflies dance around the blueberry trees... sha la la. Sigh.