A new Heart album has been met with disappointment the last few years for sure. I'm not expecting much from this album because I don't think they can write those perfect pop rock songs any longer. I hit play and here we go with the title track that has a gritty near grunge guitar distortion that sometimes apes the Led Zeppelin riff ranch for inspiration and admittedly I like the dirge and grind of the groove. A little under produced on the vocals which is OK on a song like this one. The Wilson sisters follow with another really dark and mean song which works even though it is awkward and unpolished. Then the turn to the ballad a song with Sara McLachlan who I can't stand as a singer or a performer. The song is a whatever tune, it's kinda good but it's kinda lame as well. The chorus wants to be cool but it doesn't quite reach the lofty heights it needs to and that's because the album sounds like it was recorded on the cheap.
The blues rocker "Skin & Bones" with the unlatching guitar and vocal and the out of tune ring of the bass almost work but miss what artists like Stevie Wonder bring to this sort of style. Now the rest of the album plays by and I'm bored with what they are laying down. The sound of the album is overtly weak and the guitar playing is awful. Heart prove yet again they should just stop recording new material of find someone to write them some songs that don't suck. Ann and Nancy are past their prime when it comes to song writing and even though she can still wail now and again Ann can't suck in the air and let it rip like she could in her youth. Partly because of her weight struggles and in part age but I do believe that if she was near the same weight she was back in the 80's comeback period her voice would be stronger especially live where she sounds winded after the first line. She actually sounds winded on some of the songs on Fanatic which isn't good and I don't say this to be mean or picky it's fact.
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