JUNK FARM „Didn't Come To Dance”

Music: Progressive Rock
Website: www.junkfarm.de
Duration: 50 minutes (13 songs)
Country: Germany

This is already the last band from great package sended by Canadian label Unicorn Digital – by the way – This is my favourite label which release wide-comprehended Progressive Music. In the package were many materials and there were excellent in majority. This time came time for German JUNK FARM with their the second album. Will be JUNK FARM equally good? We will see… The band has tenth anniversary in this year. But for now this is their the newest album from 2009 year.

I admit – the cover-art of “Didn't Come to Dance” did not encourage me and maybe for that reason I left this band at the end. This cover-art does not fit to Progressive Rock. But the content from the disc is important… The music of JUNK FARM is pretty predatory – mainly thanks to the sounds of guitars (probably with lowered tuning) and the quarrelsome riffs interweaving by melodious and calmer phrases. The contained compositions are many-layered. The basic layer is creating by pretty heavy guitars and dynamic rhythmical section. Their compositions even often touch the arrangements of Heavy Metal. The keyboards melodies build the next layer (for example the organs in style 70th years) with the solo expressions of guitars from Jazz of yard. Moreover the components of clean guitar as well as the melodious choirs (co-educational), which emphasize the intensity of works also come to the whole. The motifs of vocalist, whose the singing sometimes goes in direction of recitation create the last, closing layer.

Songs of JUNK FARM visit different regions wide-comprehended Rock Music – go to sharper and more dynamic zones of Metal, classic Hard Rock regions and even to Pop Rock subjects or Southern Rock influences, as and obviously to Blues, Funk and Jazz accents. In principle every work has own climate. But the album is still coherent. On the end I affirm, that my aversion to JUNK FARM (after look the cover-art of album) was not good. The music of JUNK FARM defended oneself superbly.

note: 7.5/10

Tracklist

1. Didn't Come to Dance
2. Still not Dead
3. 10 out of 1
4. Chickbag
5. Stalker
6. Lost by a Love Song
7. Where are We Going To
8. Eurovision Song-incest
9. Music Police
10. Sweet and Sour
11. Take it Off
12. Talk to Yourself
13. Vacation Time

Line-up

Benjamin Schippritt – electric & acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Michael Sticken – drums, percussion & backing vocals
Berthold Fehmer – organ, keys, accordion & backing vocals