Lucifer's Friend
Too Late To Hate

t is a high tempo start with plenty of energy and quality, a great start to the first Lucifer’s Friend album in a long time. I listened to their live album recorded last year at the Jurassic Park festival; it was a rather mossy album that probably brought some of their fossilised fans to life. And these fans will probably rejoice even more now that they release an album and the title explains that it is too late to hate it, I don’t really think there is ever a time to hate but that is another story. It may not only be the fans that will rejoice over this new effort, the start called Demolition Man is an excellent start to the album.

Unfortunately the album gathers more moss the further along its timeline it travels, and in the end it is not the appealing album it appears to be at first glance. It sounds like a seventies album with a somewhat fresher sounds, good production, and when the tempo goes up it becomes quite appealing but in the end I can conclude that the fossil moniker I think of when thinking of old bands doing comeback after long absences is still relevant. It is as nice and melodic as it is tired and lacks ideas. I can’t say that they shouldn’t have cloned these guys from that mosquito they found in some piece of amber somewhere, but I don’t really think they offer anything that we have missed in terms of music. And it is not that amazing either. But sure, Lawton sings really well and there are some really good things, like the opening track Demolition Man to name just one of these tracks.

At first I was thinking that I could praise an old fossilised band that has been silent for decades, it doesn’t happen often and it doesn’t happen now. In the end I find this album half-mossy and half-fossilised. The fans will find it outstanding and will probably jump up and down from being overjoyed by a new album by their favourite band who originally called it a day many years ago. But I don’t think it is an album that will earn them many new fans as albums like these come in vast numbers and Lucifer’s Friend might have offered something new and exciting in the seventies but they do not do it nowadays.

Demolition Man and When Children Cry are my favourite tracks and besides those I like it when they pick up the pace, I guess it is like the old saying that a rolling stone gathers no moss (unless it is a member of a band called Rolling Stones of course). And with that I can say that the opening tracks Demolition man alone is worth more money than the entire Live at Jurassic Park album they released earlier this year and I can end by cleverly stating that it rolls a lot more in the early part of the album and then gather quite a lot of moss towards the end.

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