Album: Act III: Love Will Ruin [Part 1]
Band: Neverending White Lights
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Here is album number 3 from Neverending White Lights (NWL). NWL continues its trend of using variety guest artists to contribute the vocals. But on this album you'll hear a lot more input from Daniel Victor (the man behind NWL). This is because he has noticed the difficulty in touring playing songs sung by many different artists.
The album opens up with another great and powerful instrumental song similar to what he's done in previous albums. This is followed up with the albums main single "Falling Apart". Great tune, very catchy. Another great song to listen to is "Lonely War", a very dramatic melancholy tune. "Ghost Ship" is probably my favourite song on this album. It has such a great opening and great chorus. The song "The Greatest One" has some interesting notoriety. Fans love the first half of the song, but in the second half there are some hi-pitched vocals mistaken to sound like a chipmunk. NWL has received quite a bit of controversy on that part of the song. But Daniel reported (in a Web blog) that that voice is actually his at a high frequency. That voice is supposed to represent a spirit which is what he was trying to represent with the voice manipulation. I guess it didn't really work out but Daniel has no regrets.
All in all the album is a good listen. Act 2 was my favourite album and with this release it still is. In Act 2 NWL set a very high bar which would be very hard to top. Still I enjoyed this album and hope you give it a chance as well.
Oh and if you are wondering why this album is titled Part 1, the obvious answer is that there will be a Part 2. When writing this album NWL amounted a large number of songs, too large for album, so it was split into two. The second part is expected to be released sometime in Fall 2012.
Rating: 8 of 10
You can sample some of the songs here:
www.neverendingwhitelights.com/player
You can also search around on Youtube.
