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Melodic hard rock of the highest echelon. Nothing more and nothing else should be expected from the divine voice of TEN singer, Garry Hughes. 12 tunes housed in a great slipcase edition that will send you to the melodic metal heaven.
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1. Veritas
2. See Love Through My Eyes
3. In My Head
4. Time To Pray
5. Wide Awake In Dreamland
6. I Pray For You
7. Synchronicity
8. Strange
9. All I Want Is You
10. I Know It's Time
11. The Emerald Sea
12. The Everlasting Light
TRACK LISTING:
1. Veritas
2. See Love Through My Eyes
3. In My Head
4. Time To Pray
5. Wide Awake In Dreamland
6. I Pray For You
7. Synchronicity
8. Strange
9. All I Want Is You
10. I Know It's Time
11. The Emerald Sea
12. The Everlasting Light
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Smooth solo album from the voice of Ten
1 Dec 2010
Format:Audio CD
2007's Veritas is the third solo album from Ten mastermind Gary Hughes. I'm not entirely sure why Hughes - who is the singer, producer and chief songwriter for Ten - needs to do solo albums, especially with members of Ten on board, but I'm a big fan of his work so I had to pick up a copy of Veritas.
As I expected, Veritas sounds a lot like a Ten album. Well, one of Ten's more AOR-sounding albums at least. There's not much in the way of bombastic pomp rock or soaring hard rock songs here. Instead the focus is on the lighter side of the Ten sound - smooth ballads and mid-tempo love songs. It's not my favorite style, but I have to admit Hughes does this kind of music extremely well. His voice is rich, warm and just perfect for crooning love songs. He's also been at this long enough to know how to write some pretty powerful ballads. The music, vocals, songwriting and production on Veritas is all high-caliber, as you might expect. My only real complaint is that Hughes doesn't really venture out from his comfort zone at all. The songs are all good, but they're all pretty familiar.
It may not offer anything new, but any new Gary Hughes release is still worth owning. If you liked his previous solo albums, you'll enjoy Veritas as well. Ten fans should enjoy it as well, as long as you aren't expecting another The Robeor Babylon (Name of the Rose maybe).
As I expected, Veritas sounds a lot like a Ten album. Well, one of Ten's more AOR-sounding albums at least. There's not much in the way of bombastic pomp rock or soaring hard rock songs here. Instead the focus is on the lighter side of the Ten sound - smooth ballads and mid-tempo love songs. It's not my favorite style, but I have to admit Hughes does this kind of music extremely well. His voice is rich, warm and just perfect for crooning love songs. He's also been at this long enough to know how to write some pretty powerful ballads. The music, vocals, songwriting and production on Veritas is all high-caliber, as you might expect. My only real complaint is that Hughes doesn't really venture out from his comfort zone at all. The songs are all good, but they're all pretty familiar.
It may not offer anything new, but any new Gary Hughes release is still worth owning. If you liked his previous solo albums, you'll enjoy Veritas as well. Ten fans should enjoy it as well, as long as you aren't expecting another The Robeor Babylon (Name of the Rose maybe).
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
AOR's best singer-songwriter
17 April 2008
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The single biggest problem the AOR genre has is a lack of serious criticism. The dominant review websites are run by people who have poor taste and who frankly know very little about singing or songwriting. The biggest one gives silly, generic stuff like Toto "album of the year" awards while often under-rating or ignoring real quality.
Hughes is the man behind the band Ten, the best AOR/light metal act of the last two decades. His gift for vocal melodies is unsurpassed in the history of the genre, his lyrics are far more intelligent than the usual AOR lovey-dovey cliches, and he is certainly one of the very best vocalists AOR has ever seen.
But as I mentioned, a lot of the internet busybodies reviewing "melodic rock" don't know anything about lyric writing (as evidenced by their poor composition skills in their reviews) and less about singing. They seem to only like high tenors showing off their vocal range and technical abilities while ignoring the things that actually matter. Hughes, like all the best male singers in pop music history (Elvis and Sinatra being only the most obvious examples) is a high baritone. This alone elevates the sound of his records above the usual sissy-squealing of the rest of the pack, but more than that, he actually understands singing - phrasing, breathing, projection. The squealers and the reviewers who love them do not.
Lastly, for some reason some of the reviewers took this album to task for its "production", by which they evidently mean the mix. There's nothing wrong with the mix here. In some places on some songs it's a little experimental, but nothing is inaudible or out of place. The mainstream AOR reviewers want everything to sound the same (the good but sterile and predictable mixes of Dennis Ward are the standard), every voice to sound alike (a scratchy high tenor), every lyric to consist of empty cliches (to prevent their little brains from having to think while they're humming along in their car with the top down). Hughes delivers none of the above, so he is too often overlooked.
This particular album is of average quality for Hughes, which means it is better than at least 95 percent of the AOR that the AOR websites tend to like. Pick it up without hesitation if you have better taste than the typical "pro" AOR reviewer.
Hughes is the man behind the band Ten, the best AOR/light metal act of the last two decades. His gift for vocal melodies is unsurpassed in the history of the genre, his lyrics are far more intelligent than the usual AOR lovey-dovey cliches, and he is certainly one of the very best vocalists AOR has ever seen.
But as I mentioned, a lot of the internet busybodies reviewing "melodic rock" don't know anything about lyric writing (as evidenced by their poor composition skills in their reviews) and less about singing. They seem to only like high tenors showing off their vocal range and technical abilities while ignoring the things that actually matter. Hughes, like all the best male singers in pop music history (Elvis and Sinatra being only the most obvious examples) is a high baritone. This alone elevates the sound of his records above the usual sissy-squealing of the rest of the pack, but more than that, he actually understands singing - phrasing, breathing, projection. The squealers and the reviewers who love them do not.
Lastly, for some reason some of the reviewers took this album to task for its "production", by which they evidently mean the mix. There's nothing wrong with the mix here. In some places on some songs it's a little experimental, but nothing is inaudible or out of place. The mainstream AOR reviewers want everything to sound the same (the good but sterile and predictable mixes of Dennis Ward are the standard), every voice to sound alike (a scratchy high tenor), every lyric to consist of empty cliches (to prevent their little brains from having to think while they're humming along in their car with the top down). Hughes delivers none of the above, so he is too often overlooked.
This particular album is of average quality for Hughes, which means it is better than at least 95 percent of the AOR that the AOR websites tend to like. Pick it up without hesitation if you have better taste than the typical "pro" AOR reviewer.
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