SHY — Unfinished Business (review)

SHY — Unfinished Business album cover Album · 2002 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Stephen
The similarity of Tony Mills' melodic screech with TNT legend, Tony Harnell, and with him joining up TNT to replace the mighty Harnell, sparked my curiousity on Shy's back catalogue, and honestly I didn't expect this 2002 release to be one of their best, and in fact, it is! Jumping back to 1990, after 'Misspent Youth' which is a disappointing result according to the band, Shy still kept a lot of rough diamonds in the vault and when the opportunity arisen in 2000 to do a new recording under Z Records, Mills and Harris decided it's time to finish the unfinished business.

"Skydiving" is an explosive melodic blast, you just can't believe there's a song like this in the year 2002. The soaring vocal, the thrilling guitar, it's basically like TNT in their golden years. "Change of Direction" didn't change anything, still grand and gorgeous. "Breakaway" is as strong as "Skydiving", another champion of the record and a huge contender to be the song of the year. "Mary-Anne" is another wow, power ballad never been this good, it has that unimaginable beauty.

"Heaven Tonight", "Can't Stop Lovin' You", and "No Other Way" aren't slowing down and still racing to the top. Check out also the superb solos in "Whole Lotta Feelings", the song itself might not as good as the other, but that solo guitar is killing everything. "Storyline" is another brilliant ballad in shape of classic Journey. I've told you before but now I need to tell you again, Shy isn't spending two years of recording this album for nothing, they managed to put out a ten-out-of-ten album in my book. Like my French friend said, "fantastique!"
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