The Sticky Fingers Ltd.
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Sticky fingered Italians offers us their debut album which happens to be a self-titled affair with ten tracks of sticky fingers playing guitars and whatever else in a hard rocking fashion. This band begun back in 1996, then as a band playing seventies songs both covers and their own songs inspired by songs of the same era. Rolling Stones and other bands like them. The eagle-eyed reader has already spotted the name Sticky Fingers which happens to be the same as a Rolling Stones album and that Rolling Stones reference seems to have disturbed some reviewer I stumbled upon. He didn’t like that reference since he didn’t think they sounded enough like said band, maybe they don’t but I think that reference is okay as that was one of the bands I thought of immediately when hearing the album.

It sounds like classic rock hardrock in a slightly modern guise, as the production is a lot more modern than the bands that have inspired these guys. Their music offers nothing that we haven’t heard before and I fear that they might end up drowning in the very wide and ever-widening mainstream of the classic hardrock genre. Decent vocalist with a classical sound and the ten tracks of the album are of the classical variation of an album in this genre, nothing really exciting or different there. The fact is that they do more or less what you can expect and maybe that will be a problem and I as a reviewer often have problems with that as I always want to hear something that I haven’t heard before because what is the point of another album that sounds the same as any other album?

It is a decent album all over, pretty good album in fact. Maybe it lacks several things, like a bit of energy and when they lower the tempo they becomes a bit tiresome. But overall it works pretty well, as car music it mainly works quite brilliantly and I have found myself singing along with a few of the tracks when driving along. Problem is though that who will find this album good enough to spend time with, I fear that the album may drown amongst all those similar bands and albums out there.

Best on this album is the opener; it is an entertaining and enjoyable track with a great chorus. The lyrics on that track are really daft though; I think that the same thing can be said about most of the tracks on the album. But that is what to be expected from bands not having English as their native tongue and Swedish bands suffer from the same things. I think however that this album is pretty interesting but as so many other albums of similar calibre I think it will drown in that ever-widening mainstream. They need to do something more exciting than this to really grab the attention of potential fans.

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