Harem Scarem – Chasing Euphoria

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• Band:
  Harem Scarem
• Duration: 00:37:14
• Available from: 25/04/2025
• Label:

• Frontiers

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Is it true that all the bands, reached a certain age, put the automatic pilot? The case of the Harem Scarem, which with “Chasing Euphoria” reach the sixteenth release of original music, is in this sense emblematic, even if not quite completely. After the successful reunion of 2013, the band led by the stainless Harry Hess, Pete Lesperance and Creighton Doane – respectively voice and guitar, guitar and drums – seems to have found its quadrature of the circle, also thanks to the rejuvenation work that the Frontiers Records operated towards many bands literally resurrected by oblivion.
If “Change the World”, however, was a truly excellent album, in this new test, which lasts just under forty minutes, the band seems to have understood that the winning formula should not be exposed too much from what allows musicians to have fun and fans to jump and hum
Title-track is a clear case: an excellent example of how the Aor should play in the present day, decidedly aligned on the work of other illustrious colleagues (who said Magnum?), But still with a little more shot. Here and there those keyboard ideas played by Hess peek by the classic melodic touch typical of the Canadians, capable of alternating more cadenced songs such as “Better the Devil You Know” with more re -dear moments such as “Slow Burn”, even if our best gives the pieces more to sing, such as “Gotta Keep Your Head Up”, where it emerges in particular the excellent job. guitars.
In the long run, however, the formula always remains that, missing a little than that more sustained verve that had distinguished the immediately previous albums. The most interesting moments remain those where ours allow themselves to use a more supported four quarter -quarter, such as “A Falling Knife”, where there is almost a hint of Deep Purple, or the final and melancholy “Wasted Years”, with a stratification of reverberations between tools and decidedly irresistible voice.
Many of the pieces of “Chasing Euphoria” are definitely good and will make fans of this kind happy, even if we begin to warn, in fact, a certain tired phase, especially if you think of the ballato “World of Fire” or “Bad Way”, songs that we have appreciated a little less precisely because it is not blackening; But, overall, the new Canadian album does exactly what is expected of the Aor in 2025: playing well, clean and with the feeling that time does not really pass for these musicians.

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