Advantages: A superb, creative band back together Disadvantages: Had to wait nearly 20 years!
...on you"
So starts Red Sky, the long awaited (by me anyway) comeback album by 80s symphonic rockers, Saracen.
Back in the eighties there were a lot of rock bands who almost made it big. Of all of them, the ones who most deserved it were Saracen. Their debut album, Heroes, Saints and Fools was a masterpiece, which should have become one of the most ground breaking albums of the decade but was sadly passed over. The band split up shortly afterwards.
... ...Come To The Light.
Red Sky is the result, twelve songs of which four are from the original two Saracen albums, a fifth is an old Saracen standard recorded for the first time, and two appeared on Rob's solo album. Five are completely new - though one will be recognisable as a re-write of an older song.
The album opens in style with We Have Arrived which was their second single, and a song from the second album. However it is almost unrecognisable; ...
Vodkaboy 17.11.2003
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