Review: Starmen – Starmenized
Melodic Passion (September 8th 2023)
Reviewer: Dan Mann
Swedish rockers Starmen return with what is their fourth album in three years! I must admit I became a fan after hearing their debut ‘Kiss The Sky‘, so I was looking forward to hearing ‘Starmenized‘.
For those of you already familiar with the band and the albums already released, ‘Starmenized‘ is more of the same. There’s no sudden change of music direction or ‘experimentation’, and thank goodness for that. Their musical formula works, and works well. They deliver polished melodic hard rock, full of hooks, harmonised vocals and catchy lyrics.
No, Starmen aren’t reinventing the wheel, they know what fans of this genre like and expect, and deliver exactly that. Some may say the whole face paint/ band member names thing is too cheesy for 2023, but to paraphrase Lemmy, you don’t want to see an accountant on stage, you want to see a space alien!
There is certainly something added to Scandinavian drinking water as those Northern Europeans have not just cornered the market in this style of rock, they’ve driven a bloody great flag into the middle of it, declaring it their own. If you love Scandi rock then Starmen are a band that will be right up your street.
In the tradition of ‘favourite songs’, there are two tracks that for me hold their head above the other eight songs. ‘Renegade Jenny‘, which whilst polished, has a slight roughness to it, and the final song on the album, the title track ‘Starmenized‘, with it’s catchy chorus.
So go out and grab yourself a copy, and whilst your at it, check out Starmen‘s other three releases.
Tracklist:
- Liar
- Rockstar
- Tears Never Dry
- I Die For You
- Radioactive
- Black Moon Rising
- Renegade Jenny
- Just a Stranger
- Word Up (We All Bleed Red)
- Starmenized
ROCKPOSER DOT COM! 