Voiceprint Music - Release

Release

£10.99

In stock

Catalogue number

FMCD002

Release date

25/01/2010

Format

Label

Firefly Music

Panic Room

Satellite

Disc 1

1. Freedom To Breathe 2. Picking Up Knives 3. I Am A Cat 4. The Fall 5. Black Noise 6. Yasuni 7. Sunshine 8. Into The Fire 9. Dark Star 10. Muse 11. Satellite

Satellite', the stunning new album from UK rock band Panic Room, looks set to propel them into another league. The award-winning band have returned from their live UK touring with a second album that is tighter, brighter, louder and even more powerful than the first. Taking the same creative freedom that they explored in their debut, ‘Visionary Position', Panic Room have fused their signature sound with an even higher level of energy and raw power. All captured in a two-week ‘live' studio recording session, ‘Satellite' is a jaw-dropping collection of songs that all shine with the talent, passion, and freedom of a band at the very top of their game. The album is jam-packed full of great hooks, powerful grooves, gorgeous melodies and, of course, the amazing voice of stellar frontwoman, Anne-Marie Helder. Impossible to pigeon-hole, each song has its own unique flavour, but it is possibly the epic title track, ‘Satellite', which simply screams ‘hit'.

While Led Zeppelin, Zero 7, Burt Bacharach, Kate Bush, Alanis Morissette & Metallica are among the touchstones for the creative spark of Panic Room, they are no slavish copyists and ‘Satellite' emerges, an evolving, original and beautiful creation ready to take flight to the stars.

Reviews

Panic Room's excellent first album ''Visionary Position'' was a long time coming. It was clearly a labout of love, and its eclecticism - moving from hard rock to folk prog - while seen by most as being positive - was, inevitably, unlikely to be repeated. And so it has proved with the band's second album, ''satellite''. This has been a lot quicker to appear, and follows the band's considerable development as a live act in its own right. As a result, while it is a beautifully recorded by Tim Hamill, there ia a much more of a ''band'' feel about, and far more consistency of tone and approach...

...To me, this has been a real grower, repeated listens revealing new textures and a growing love for the songs. What is certainly true is that a) it sounds nothing like Karnataka and b) the nods towards prog and folk from the first album have largely been dropped, but what we do have is a very fine band finding its feet and producing a rock album of very fine quality.

Stephen Lambe