Originally released in 1994, Atlantic’s magnificent Power album gets a spruce up and re-issue via Escape Music.
This is a huge album of upbeat, feel-good, powerful hard melodic rock which easily stands alongside anything the likes of Journey, Foreigner, Heartland and similar did in their prime.
Alas for Atlantic, in 1994 this type of music wasn’t particularly fashionable being overtaken by “grunge” and whatnot and did not sell well.
Had it been a decade earlier, surely it would have shifted many, many units.
Power is a majestic album full of clean, smooth yet powerful vocals, lots of keyboards, driving guitar riffs, soaring solos and a big rhythm section keeping things tight.
Add in the infectious hooks, melodies and backing vocal harmonies and you have everything needed to make a classic like this.
Not one back number or filler anywhere. Ten songs of irresistibly catchy melodic rock with a hard edge to it. The songs average around the four minute mark so there’s no wandering about. Each one a winner.
Stand outs on an album of stands outs for me include Bad Blood, Can’t Hold On, Dangerous Games and the bonus track of Heart’s on Fire.
There are a couple of slower ones such as Every Beat of My Heart though there’s no descent in to overly sugary power ballad territory.
Here is Bad Blood:
Escape Music have created new artwork as the original was, shall we say, something Spinal Tap might have come up with for a follow-up to what they may have wanted for Smell the Glove.
Given the lack of commercial success of Power in the 1990s, it’s no surprise that Atlantic didn’t last long with the album seemingly a “one and done”.
They did return a couple of years ago with a much changed line-up releasing Another World.
Though with a debut of the class of Power back in the mid-1990s, given an even break, Atlantic should have been shoulder to shoulder with the giants of the genre.
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