Killer Bee
Eye in the Sky

Sounds nasty, Killer Bee and it has one of those nasty clowns on the cover. This bodes well for some off the reins, mad hard rocking music. But it isn’t. The partly Swedish band plays on nostalgia and seems to have scavenged songs refused by bands like Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, and so on with bands of choice from this era. Those who dream of the past, certainly about the seventies with Rockfords and those kind of heroes it could be a good piece to add to the collection of things remote from today’s world of strong productions and powerful sound.

It sounds like something from the seventies; even the sound is more like something from then than something from now. They have some catchy choruses, Hammond organs, typical riffs and melodies – it could just as well have been something from a label called Yesterrock who release old albums that has been forgotten for some reason. They don’t offer that much variation over the songs on the album either so it is a good thing that they keep the playing time to vinyl length – another reason to suspect that this is really something from the past.

I should point out that I am not completely adversarial towards albums that live in the past, but they need to have something that makes them worthwhile and sets them apart from all that already have been released within this genre. That is something I don’t see in these guys, they play the nostalgia card and are pleased with that cautious to avoid doing things that would set them apart from everything else. Now, I am a critic and it is my reason for being to criticise what I hear and therefore I see things differently in comparison with their targeted audience who don’t really think about music critically in any way. Those who want to live in a bubble of nostalgia will probably do well with this one; it is a decent album after all.

They could loosen the reins and up the energy, up the tempo, and if they do so I think they could end up making an album that would actually be relevant in the larger scheme of things. This one is pretty decent but it has nothing to set it apart or make you want to play it, it is just 43 minutes of music that has been done better by others in the past.

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