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Review: 'SPATIAL UNITY'
'Knock Me Off My Feet'   

-  Label: 'Matchbox Recordings'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '13th October 2008'-  Catalogue No: 'MRSU01'

Our Rating:
Spatial Unity are a trio from Scotland and apparently include Andy Murray, a former member of Wolfsbane among their number. Knock Me Off My Feet is their debut album.

The three members of this band are middle-aged white men with, no doubt, a fair few years in the rock-music business behind them. If you were to have three guesses as to the kind of music they would be making, you probably would not need all three to get it right. What we have here eight versions of the same song – well-produced, decently played, middle of the road pop-rock. It’s just boring, and has been done SO many times before.

Actually, there is one track that is not, and that’s “Dream Frequency” which has a spoken-word vocal over mellow, slighty electronic prog-rock backing track. It’s definitely the best track here, simply because the lads seem to have discovered a musical boundary to try and push.

For fans of Phil Collins. That says it all…

NB. do check out the very lovely Annette Pehrsson who has produced and appears in the photo-artwork though.

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  author: hairypaul

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Wow! Phil Collins hey? I knew this album was good but that is incredible ;-)
Seriously, I am not too sure where “hairypaul” is coming from? This album is a regular in my last.fm playlist; and to be truthful, it is one of the best examples of song-writing and performing I have heard in a while. All tracks on this album are diverse; where else do you get Electronica, pop-rock to retro-pop all on the same album. Songs are uplifting – fun and the musicianship is amazing. Great Album,well done!

------------- Author: Warnie   11 September 2008