The fifth album from this band from Canada.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Hmmm..... I have never hidden my admiration for this band from Quebec, Canada. Their first four albums are very good. Nevertheless, I was not sure if I wanted to review an album with three old Huis songs and eight cover versions.
That is what we get on this seventy-six minutes long album.
Thankfully, the band has gone down the route of covering some pretty obscure songs from not the most obvious bands. The songs here are not exactly hits. None of the songs are the best songs from the respective bands either.
Bands covered here Genesis, Deep Purple, Arena, Marillion and Asia in addition to their fellow Canadians, Morse Code, Rush and Saga. That makes this album a lot more interesting.
The band does a very good job here. The covers really makes me appreciate the respective bands even more than I do. The best covers here are their version of Deep Purple's Perfect Stranger and Saga's Don't Be Late. The rest of the covers are good too. Their new versions of their three own songs feels a bit odd on this album.
I cannot stand covers albums. But Huis has done a great job here and this album is an exception from my dislike of covers albums. It is a good album in it's own right and an example for other bands.
3 points
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