MR.X - Icarus (2018) - (Almost) All genres of rock in a single album

"Icarus" is the third album from the french band MR.X that radiates a pleasing rock n´roll sound. To talk about the music quality is easy, the hard task it´s to try  explain the musical genre when each track brings a different footprint. The musical blend goes through several subgenres of rock; is born alternative with a grunge appeal, flirts the blues rock, has a brief affair with rockabilly, but marries a Southern rock and dies Stoner. If you think I'm exaggerating, listen and make your own conclusions.

The opening has a more alternative vibe with the track Borders (If You Dare), that reach for a grunge approach similar to the Alice in Chains sound. This relation is explored in fullness in the following song Truth, as if Staley came back to life ready to sing with double vocal effects full of feeling under distorted guitars in slow cadence. Blue Tiger is a beautiful ballad that starts acoustic, but get spilled over into a '90s alternative rock style. Begging for Mercy is the heaviest on the album, and coincidentally (or not) the most exciting. With fast-paced, under the weight of heavy guitars and bass is stoner to the soul. Cat Fight Blues with malicious solos in well-audible bass chord environment associated with mournful vocals could only embrace a blues rock feeling. A small sensation of rockabilly is heard Runnin ', this is the signal for MR.X to direct the sound to a southern rock appeal. From this style emerge tracks like Make Them Tell You loaded on the vibrant guitar, and Nothing's True that goes back with the acoustic passages. The album closes heavy with the beautiful track Icarus.

Listening to MR.X is more interesting than picking up an encyclopedia and studying the various tributaries that form a rock n´roll river. When you have competence, music expands established musical boundaries and creates an amalgam of experience for the listener. The danger is to look unfocused and create an album without cohesion. For now the hodgepodge of MR.X has worked.

Tracklist:
1.Borders (If You Dare) 04:24
2.Truth 04:49
3.Flying High 04:18
4.Blue Tiger 06:27
5.Begging For Mercy 04:06
6.Cat Fight Blues 06:44
7.Runnin' 02:24
8.You'd Better Stop Me Now 03:41
9.Make Them Tell You 03:41
10.Nothing's True 05:55
11.Icarus 04:58

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Marcelo Hissa