Random Track of the Day
Wednesday, September 21 2011
Back for some rockin' today, with a short-lived offshoot from the Alan Parsons Project, who called themselves Keats. Makes it murder trying to find them on Google: keep getting poetry links! Keats were Ian Bairnson, Colin Blunstone, David Paton, Stuart Elliott and Pete Bardens, most or all of whom have contributed at one time or another to the APP on various albums (you'll know Colin Blunstone's voice from the hit “Old and wise”).
They just released the one album, it being self-titled. It's a good effort, but in fairness it's so close to the style and themes of the APP that you would kind of wonder why they bothered? This at any rate is from that album, a rocky little number entitled “Fight to win”.
Fight to win --- Keats --- from "Keats" on EMI
As I say, there's nothing wrong with the track, but you could very easily hear it on an Alan Parsons album. The standard melody and beat prevalent in much of Parsons' work is there, and though Blunstone does a good job on the vocals, it's nothing to write home about. For completist APP fans only.