Uriah Heep - 2018 - Living The Dream (KSL Edition) [EAC FLAC]
Artist: Uriah Heep
Title: Living The Dream
Format: CD, Album
Country: Russia
Producer: Jay Ruston
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Recorded: 2018 at Chapel Studios, South Thoresby, Lincolnshire, UK
Label: Frontiers Records/KronStudioLab Int'l
Catalog: KSL Edition CD: 4601 DM
Barcode: 8 024391 088524
Genre: Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock Progressive Rock, Heavy Metal
Duration: 52:28
Uriah Heep:
Wikipedia:
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (#23, 1972). In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit. Along with Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, Uriah Heep had become one of the top rock bands in the early 1970s.
Uriah Heep's audience declined by the 1980s, to the point where they became essentially a cult band in the United Kingdom and United States. The band maintains a significant following and performs at arena-sized venues in the Balkans, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and Scandinavia. They have sold over 40 million albums worldwide with over 4 million sales in the U.S, where their best-known songs include Easy Livin', The Wizard, Sweet Lorraine, and Stealin'.
Living The Dream:
Louder Review by Dom Lawson:
Mick Box and co. notch up album number 25 in fine and furious style.
Tucked mischievously away at the back end of Uriah Heep’s 25th studio album, Falling Under Your Spell could well be the best song the British legends have written since the early 70s. Admittedly, it’s a dead spit for the immortal Easy Livin’, and that may be why the band opted to keep it as a belated treat, rather than placing it front and centre. But what a song it is, all propelled along by that unmistakable turbocharged shuffle, as Phil Lanzon’s rampaging, fiery keys fill up the foreground and the increasingly irresistible Bernie Shaw bellows his veteran head off. The chorus is huge, the energy levels are somewhat startling for a band of this vintage and, most importantly, Falling Under Your Spell sounds weirdly, satisfyingly current. It’s further evidence of Uriah Heep’s unerring ability to keep forging ahead and delivering the goods.
While certain more successful peers have flattered to deceive with patchy albums and questionable live performances, Mick Box’s crew never lost the vitality that made their early records so thrilling. Even ignoring that one standout classic, Living The Dream is as strong as anything the band have produced in two, maybe three decades. It begins with Grazed By Heaven, another barrelling, none-more-Heep hard rocker that sets out the album’s stall in simple terms: this is more of the glorious same, yes, but imbued with a very contemporary sense of sonic heft, those trademark five-way harmonies sparkling with freshness and verve as the song’s angular, prog-fuelled central riff works its clattering magic.
The title track is another inch-perfect and strident anthem, Shaw’s soulful roar conveying the song’s mixed emotions with casual authority. Album centrepiece Rocks In The Road is the other moment on Living The Dream when it’s impossible to imagine any long-term Heep fans not losing their shit. Eight minutes long and gently redolent of past triumphs like July Morning and Salisbury, it erupts into bombast worthy of The Who but sounds less like an exercise in reverent retro rock than a wholesale upgrade for this band’s prog sensibilities. The remaining songs are all brimming with golden moments, both reassuringly classic and thrillingly fresh, with Waters Flowin’ standing out as a shimmering, acid folk detour and the closing Dreams Of Yesteryear bringing everything to a melancholy but satisfactory conclusion. A staggering 49 years in, Heep are still living the dream and making it look easy.
Tracklist:
01 - Grazed By Heaven (4:31)
02 - Living The Dream (5:34)
03 - Take Away My Soul (6:12)
04 - Knocking At My Door (4:59)
05 - Rocks In The Road (8:19)
06 - Waters Flowin' (4:27)
07 - It'S All Been Said (6:02)
08 - Goodbye To Innocence (3:33)
09 - Falling Under Your Spell (3:24)
10 - Dreams Of Yesteryear (5:26)
Personnel:
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Dave Rimmer
Drums, Percussion – Russell Gilbrook
Keyboards, Vocals – Phil Lanzon
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Mick Box
Lead Vocals – Bernie Shaw
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