Review: Silver Horses – Electric Omega

Bad Reputation (July 12^th, 2024)

Reviewer: Grant Foster

This is the third release by the Italian outfit which features the Tygers of Pan Tang’s Jacopo Jack Meille on vocals.

They already have a varied history which isn’t possible to summarise in this review, but suffice to say this release features new songs and re workings of older songs.

I’ll get right to it. I was looking forward to wrapping my ears around this. I really rate Jacopo as a vocalist with his work in the TOPT.

But this is SO predictable!

Don’t misunderstand me, the playing is solid and the vocals are on point.

But if you like melodic hard rock, with each song here you almost know where it’s going and almost when.  It’s almost too slick for its own good at times. I was waiting for the handbrake to come off and the pedal to be pressed beyond the metal.

‘Looking So Good‘, the opening track  highlights this. It threatens with a groove guitar, but then plods. ‘Bag of Bones‘ attempts to be three songs in one.

‘Endless Circle‘ is almost that. Melodic, but going nowhere. ‘Hagar Cafe‘ has an eastern vibe but, but, again it drags where it should have a dynamic.

Quite a number of songs are built on guitar riffs that aren’t memorable enough I’m afraid.

It all starts to sound like a cross between an Indian restaurant, a Turkish coffee house and a mystical gathering. Which is a shame as Jacopo sings beautifully on it.

The last song, ‘Time and Space‘, finally shows what they can do, but its too late.

Without well crafted songs it all means very little.

Tracklist:

1. Looking So Good

2. Bad Of Bones

3. Endless Circle

4. Hafa Café

5. The Big Wave

6. Black Hawk Dawn

7. Family Man

8. Somewhere Sometimes

9. Sandcake

10. Trapped In The Woods

11. The Grand Design

12. My Lady In Red

13. Time And Space