Andy Rock
This Time

At least he has the correct surname for a rock artist, and this time he might step out of from the shadow of his heroes. When he isn’t making albums under his own moniker he is part of the band Wild Rose with whom he has recorded several albums. Before This Time he released Into the Night in 2012, an album that I had completely forgotten that I reviewed claiming that it was good but forgettable like many other AOR albums that I have reviewed over the years. So what about This Time?

We get to hear David Saylor on vocals, a man who sadly passed away not long ago, he sings very well but is probably one of very few highlights on this album. The production is also good but it is rather typical songs in a genre that is already littered with typical songs. There are really no surprises at all on this album, just the typical songs you come to expect from an album in this genre. And there are ten of those songs and the playing time is kept sensible at less than forty minutes.

And to be honest I don’t really see the point of this album, it is not that different from Wild Rose and it is not really better than Wild Rose either. Maybe he should just have taken the best songs and used them as fillers for the next Wild Rose album as that would have been better use for the songs. This album just feels kind of uninteresting, it sure is decent enough for you not to throw it out the window or something but it is neither interesting nor good enough to really be worth the time it takes to play it.

In the end I think that this is an album you hear and then forget, perhaps some die-hard fans of the genre will like it but somehow I doubt that. I think Andy Rock probably should have focused less on quantity and more on quality writing fewer but better songs instead of releasing stuff with both his band and in his own name. I think This Time feels like a rather dull album, one that you hear and then immediately forget about.

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