It has been too long since someone made a BIG rock record.
Lynam's latest effort "Tragic City Symphony" has a big fat production with huge Mutt Lange-like vocals and great hooks. This is a great attempt to make a big stadium rock record.
Lynam sure has references back to the 80´s. Hand on heart - who has seen Beau Hill's name on any record since the glory days of
Warrant and Winger?
Lynam plays modern Hard Rock rooted in the 80's, which is best exemplified on album opener
Is This A Heartbreak Or A Loaded Gun?, which has a big chorus and "Def Leppard" choir.
Lynam mostly tours with 80's rockers and
Lynam is an updated version of 80's Hard Rock. Mr. Tom Keifer from
Cinderella plays slide guitar on
Enemy and gives it a swampy "Heartbreak station" rock feel. Great rhythm and great song
The mid-tempo power ballad
Just Say Anything has great hooks and a superb catchy chorus. Jacob
Lynam may be a short skinny guy, but his vocals are powerful.
The moody mid-tempo rocker
Save My Soul sounds like a US radio hit.
Lynam plays around with some effects but in general it is just great song writing culmination on the fantastic chorus.
Can't Do Anything has another great chorus.
Lynam masters the emotional ballads without getting stuffy and
If You Leave sounds like another hit single. Beau Hill has mixed the grandiose ballad
A Million Ways, but the song
doesn't reach the same standard as other ballads.
"Tragic Street Symphony" is packed with straight ahead rock anthems. The songs mentioned above all have a giant chorus that you can hum after first listen. The only songs that deviate are the primitive
Porn Star and
White Trash Superstar, which
is hillbilly rock with violin and banjo. It certainly doesn't suit
Lynam.
Huge is the keyword defining this record
Written by
Michael Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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