Hinweise(VÖ 17.11.06)

Not that many pure AOR albums are released these days, but that the genre
is still alive and well can be proven with this release, the third studio
album from Canadian band Final Frontier. Main men are still vocalist Rob
Moratti (Moratti) and guitarist, bassist and keyboard player Mladen (Von
Groove, Triumph and 24k) and just like on the last album, “The Second
Wave”, they’re once again joined by guitarist Lawrence Falcomer (known
from Sonic X) and drummer Michael Shotton.
After having been released in Japan (featuring another bonus track - “Half
Way Home” - than the European one), “High Tension Wire” is now also on
sale in Europe and it’s the band’s first release for/on Frontiers Records.
What you get here is more or less the same sort of stuff (read: songs)
that we already got on the band’s first two albums for Z Records: high
quality AOR songs, excellently performed by the above-mentioned musicians,
with a striking role for Rob Moratti whose high-pitched voice comes quite
close to the one of our ‘god’ Steve Perry. If you own the first two albums
of Final Frontier, by now you know what to expect. If you don’t own them,
you may expect an album full of catchy songs with great hooks and
unmatched harmony vocals, comparable to what a band like Journey served us
in the 80s. My only point of criticism is that I miss a ‘fuller’
production, but for the rest this is one hell of an AOR album…