Search - Spoken :: Last Chance to Breathe

Good music, good message, good fun!

Fedrick Nompt | 09/09/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Very simply, Spoken has topped themselves. I believe that this album is much more melodic than their last one and with much better guitar riffs. The voice of the lead singer is great... how can he produce so much emotion in a scream? I don't know how, but he does it. This is a very good band and this is a great album!"

Definately much better than their last release, but not thei

Charles Bowman | Seattle, WA | 09/25/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I am a Spoken fan sinice "Echoes of the Spirit [...]" and I gotta say that they have changed. The last release was a weak effort, to say the least, and made me wonder "what the...?" Now, I went over to the website when I heard that there was going to be a new release. Well, I gotta say that I liked the few songs that I heard over there and I decided to buy it (because I was really hesitant).



Well, it's definately a much better effort... it has melodic voices, more intensity and solid music. However, it doesn't match up to their earlier stuff. I wanna hear the music that made me bob my head and picture the lead singer screaming so hard I could see the veins in his forehead popping out.



It's a good buy. It's more screamo than the original rapcore-ish thing they had. I do recomend this for fans of "Coheed and Cambria".



Overall, it's a good album with great music and great melodic vocals (though, sometimes, you can hear the old Matt Baird). Pick it up if you can."

A Good CD but I see potential for improvement.

Kevin J. Steinmetz | La Verne, Ca United States | 11/01/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Travis Wyrick had his job cut out for him with this band. The production and the song was very good and well produced.



This is my first acquisition of this band and maybe my last if I don't see any improvement on their next effort.



The lead singer's voice reminds me of Geddy Lee of the band Rush. (If you youngster's don't know what I'm talking about check out their CD Permanent Waves from, Oh my God, 1980). The guitar work is good but passionless (like the guitarist is going through the motions). The songs are mostly high energy rock songs with one ballad thrown in. Some of the songs sound repetitive probably because of the passionless playing and singing



And now for the play by play...



September 3/5, Wind In My Sails 3/5 - Both are good opening songs but still too little passion in songwriting/playing



Love In Return 2/5 Would be 3/5 if it weren't for the repetitive, annoying guitar riff.



Everything Is Burning 4/5 Best song on CD

1992 3/5 Has some good tempo changes

Last Chance to Breathe 4/5 Second Best song on CD



Bitter Taste 1/5 The timing is off on this song. The rhythm section is not keeping it together. The screamo singing does not fit and sounds awful and forced.

From the Inside 4/5 Good Ballad. The lead singer's voice sound the best in this song.

Home 2/5 Bland. Some of the songs on the CD sound repetitive.

4th street 3/5 Good tempo in this song

Time After Time 4/5 I gave this song an extra point just for the guts of this band to cover a Cyndi Lauper tune. I guess the boys just wanted to have fun;)

You're Still Waiting 3/5 ...for a great song. Will have to wait until the next album, I guess."