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6.5
- Band:
Wet - Duration: 00:43:22
- Available from: 28/03/2025
- Label:
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Frontiers
We have seen the eclipse a little launched in recent times, with a couple of not very inspired and repetitive productions, but what will instead be of the Wet, a creature that sees the same person in the first person the same Mastermind Erik Martensson, but surrounded by other musicians with a super talent such as Robert Säll, of the Work of Art, and Jeff Scott Soto by the Talisman (from here, joining the initials of the main groups, The acronym wet is born)?
After all, each disc on the press under this moniker has never disappointed, including the last “retransmission” which saw the light four years ago.
If the uvula of a melodic hard rock giant like Jeff Scott Soto is already an absolute security and a strong point capable of transmitting an extra gear to each single piece, the exemplary use of the choirs – a little in the work of art style, probably thanks to the contribution of Robert Sall – finds even more evidence in many of these new compositions, and more use is made than the recent past.
The “Believer” Open in fact shows a powerful sound but with aor -type sounds and arrangements; We are in a genre that does not admit big news, and on this album we certainly do not find any kind of innovation, but the WETs have a more gear than most of the competition already for the fact that they can count on three names of weight and with great experience.
Continuing to examine the album, “This house is on fire” is the classic radio song, also chosen as a single of the album precisely for its ability to hit immediately even if perhaps, looking at the other side of the medal, it shows us a piece too much Catchy. The Power Ballad “Love Conquers All” has the gift of knowing how to conquer easily thanks to a refrain that explodes with great airy and magniloquence, the intense “Pleasure & Pain” highlights the hot and penetrating uvulating of Soto and “Pay Dirt” shows the most 'party' side of the band, probably never explored; Finally, the idea of using Eric as a singer is interesting, using his unmistakable voice to make him duet with Jeff during the song “What are we fighter for”.
Yet the tracklist, especially in the second half, convinces little and remains afloat thanks to the Savoir-Faire of the three big names involved: the less interesting moments are those too tied to that sound so dear to the eclipse, that we feel echoing all too much during “Where are the Heroes Now”, “Breaking up” and “Stay Alive”, not because they are bad pieces but they mainly contain those clichés already heard and resentful with the main band of Erik.
The Wet project continues showing quality but, for the first time, it seems to march under the (high) expectations that the names involved carry, necessarily, behind. And at this point the softer and refined sounds of the beginning, disappeared at the expense of a more full -bodied and modern sound, we are a little missing.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
