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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Back to their glory days, 16 Jun 2004
After an absence that's been too long by half Heart have finally delivered an album that rivals 1978's "Little Queen" in the rock department. Anne's voice has never sounded better, always feminine but with plenty of grit and grind. The band has never sounded better, with plenty of bump and grind, with echoes of their early years ("Make Me" and "The Perfect Goodbye"), heavier stuff that extends their longstanding admiration of Led Zeppelin ("Oldest Story In The World" and "Move On"), and slow building ballads ("Enough" and "Lost Angel", a 7-minute epic that's bound to be a crowd-pleaser). Scattered throughout the album, and providing much in the way of variety and colour, the songs that Nancy takes the lead vocal on are especially pleasing. "Things" is a busking / one-man-band type tune, and, yes, the lyric is "Things ain't what they used to be"!! "I Need The Rain" is light and airy with traces of the Dreamboat Annie, "Led To One" is vaguely mystical, and the acoustic "Hello Moonglow" has a tune the quality of the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home". For those who preferred Heart in their Ron Nevison/Mutt Lange period there is "Vainglorious", arch-typical stadium rocker. This, and the following "No Other Love", written by Craig Bartock alone and sounding like a demo or doodle that goes nowhere, are arguably the weakest spots on the album. So, a brilliant return to form, and just in time, bearing in mind the return to popularity of 70s rock-without-the-pomp style.
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