Sprague Dawley - Redefining Me

Formed back in 2008, this is the debut from this Finnish group, who are mixing hard rock and grunge with a punk feel. Strangely they start the album with an instrumental, and at that time I was thinking that maybe that was going to be the way that the album was going to come across, but the vocals came in on the second song and I was soon wishing that they had stayed with the instrumental feel. I’ve never been a fan of singers such as Liam Gallagher, yet vocalist/guitarist Janne Nurmi obviously feels quite differently. The result is an album that I listen to only because I have to: I am sure that in the late Seventies/early Eighties I was hearing a lot of this type of music and I wasn’t a fan of it then either. The production isn’t as good as it could be, and whoever thought that it would be a good idea for the cymbals to be as high in the mix as they are (especially on “Come Clean”) obviously doesn’t hear this the same that I do. This is for fans only, and if this is the best after six years I’m not sure I would want to hear another album from them.