Now -- what are you listening to? V2

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/album/mizmor/yodh

My review for this actually ended up being quite long. Think it reads okay, but I better force myself to listen to this at least once more before I post it. Just in case...

NUCLEAR RABBIT vicuna

Still torn on this: I love all the songs where Herbie sings more, but for some reason Olaf is really off this album, so the two softer songs with just him singing are pure torture. This easily has potential to be an excellent album, but I think they blew it by keeping Olaf in there, as much as it hurts me to say that, because I usually like him a lot. 

I've not heard Olaf before so didn't know what to expect of him and find this album to be the kind that would put me off looking into his other work. To be honest I didn't actually notice at first that they had two singers as I looked at their line-up and saw Herbie there and that made me put it on at once. I was actually quite surprised to then hear two voices. Not a singer myself but if I were one I'm not sure how I'd feel about my band bringing in a second vocalist like this. It's one thing to do what Wolfchant did when both vocalists have different styles but here both guys are singing cleanly. And the new guy is completely upstaging the old one. And the old one is holding the new one back, which ultimately didn't make for a too enjoyable album on first impression. I drafted it at a 3, which I could honestly see going down based on my current rating system. 

I expect I will give it another go soon and maybe do a review sometime in the next week. I'll probably have my usual few days of review burn out before then though. Trying to write one for something else today didn't produce much worthwhile, though I may have another look at it before I go to sleep tonight. That's how I seem to review these days: do about five albums in quick succession and then crash.