There's something wrong with this album. Many reviewers have found it and pointed it out but that is about all they've done. It's as if David Tennant went for a jaunt into the 80's and picked up a few cds and then burned his favourites and released it as his own work. You could quite literally take the Trainspotting soundtracks CD case, slip this album in and very few folk would know the difference. And whilst that's the problem, it is also the very thing that makes it what it is, a damn fine album.
Anyway, opening up the album sees the first single and title track
Here Are The Roses and you could honestly think Joy Division were in the house. I want to say I hate it, I want to say it doesn't quite fit. The lyrics starts off very stilted but as the song builds it sweeps you along with it. Anthony Tombling Jnr's vocals drive this music and show you just why whenever a journalist writes about Dragons they actually mean it when they use the word passion.
The other standout is the closing track
Forever, it strikes a balance between the depressed theme of the early part of the album and an almost hopeful end. I even found myself finding similarities to early Bowie in there.
The album was released on the 4th June 2007 on OHM
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