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│ + Work Of Art - In Progress + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Oct-05-2014 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Hard Rock Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2011 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........12 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.woa.se ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Work Of Art Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : In Progress Label : Frontiers ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ The anticipated second album In Progress from ║ │
│║ the Swedish AOR band Work Of Art is nothing but ║ │
│║ a classic piece of work. The debut album Artwork ║ │
│║ was released in 2008 and took both the AOR fans ║ │
│║ and press by storm and was filled with stunning ║ │
│║ music in the best Toto Isolation and Seventh One ║ │
│║ style mixed with some Journey influences. ║ │
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│║ Now the question was if they could manage to ║ │
│║ come up with an even better album than the ║ │
│║ debut? The answer is YES. The new album is a bit ║ │
│║ tougher than the debut and that suits me just ║ │
│║ fine and the songs are filled with stunning ║ │
│║ hooks lines, melodies, arrangements and catchy ║ │
│║ choruses. Robert Sall, the main songwriter and ║ │
│║ guitarist has come up with high class songs and ║ │
│║ singer Lars Safsund has never sounded better. ║ │
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│║ The opening track The Rain may be the best AOR- ║ │
│║ song of 2011 with a splendid mixture of Toto ║ │
│║ meets Giant with layers of keyboards and a ║ │
│║ chorus to die for, awesome stuff. Nature of The ║ │
│║ Game is a huge AOR-song with Street Talk in mind ║ │
│║ with great riffs and wonderful melodies and the ║ │
│║ chorus will hook you up with stunning harmonies. ║ │
│║ The pompish keyboards on Never Love Again is ║ │
│║ brilliant and makes you want to play air-keys in ║ │
│║ the best Journey style. Eye Of The Storm is a ║ │
│║ pure AOR-heaven with superb mix of keys and ║ │
│║ guitars with a chorus that rocks big time. ║ │
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│║ The first single from the album is The Great ║ │
│║ Fall thatÆs pure AOR-heaven with an outstanding ║ │
│║ chorus where Giant meets Seventh Key with ║ │
│║ outstanding keyboard work. The Toto smelling ║ │
│║ Emelie is nothing but pure joy to listen to and ║ │
│║ the chorus is a winner. Fall Down is the ║ │
│║ Westcoast song of the album and reminds a lot of ║ │
│║ Chicago at their peak, wonderful stuff. ║ │
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│║ Castaway is a brilliant AOR-rocker with a ║ │
│║ H.E.A.T feel over it or should I say Giant with ║ │
│║ a great guitar work from Robert and the chorus ║ │
│║ is huge. I can say that thereÆs not a single ║ │
│║ filler on this album and you will get an album ║ │
│║ with twelve AOR-crackers that you will play ║ │
│║ again and again and again. The production is ║ │
│║ nothing but classy and sounds crystal clear. ║ │
│║ This might be the AOR album of the year and its ║ │
│║ a work of art. Get your copy right now and order ║ │
│║ a copy for your friend as well. ║ │
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│║ Fans of AOR and melodic rock (or is that the ║ │
│║ same?) are spoilt these days. While old ║ │
│║ 'dinosaurs' like Foreigner, Journey and Night ║ │
│║ Ranger have all released excellent new material ║ │
│║ (an acoustic live album in the case of ║ │
│║ Foreigner) during the past months, more recent ║ │
│║ bands like White Widdow and Work Of Art are also ║ │
│║ delivering the goods. The latter recently came ║ │
│║ up with album # 2 and I have to say that "In ║ │
│║ Progress" is yet another impressive release, ║ │
│║ that will easily reach 2011's album top three ║ │
│║ within a couple of months. Robert SΣll, the ║ │
│║ gifted songwriter of the trio, took his time to ║ │
│║ write a bunch of highly catchy tunes, going even ║ │
│║ beyond the already high quality of the debut ║ │
│║ album, "Art Work" (2008). Helped by various bass ║ │
│║ players (among which Andreas Passmark on 5 ║ │
│║ tracks) and produced by the guys themselves, "In ║ │
│║ Progress" is nothing less than an AOR fan's 'wet ║ │
│║ dream'. Pick whatever track you wish and you ║ │
│║ will get loads of melodies and hooks, enough to ║ │
│║ survive for quite some time. It's obvious that ║ │
│║ the band has been inspired by classic melodic ║ │
│║ rock acts like Giant, Journey and (especially) ║ │
│║ Toto, but who cares as long as the quality of ║ │
│║ the material is as massive as what we get here? ║ │
│║ No, I won't mention favourite tracks this time ║ │
│║ around as all of them are pure gems. By now I'm ║ │
│║ almost sure which album will top my list at the ║ │
│║ end of the year. I have only one word left for ║ │
│║ WOA and that's WOW ║ │
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│║ Line-up ║ │
│║ Lars SΣfsund (v) ║ │
│║ Robert SΣll (g) ║ │
│║ Herman Furin (d) ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - The Rain [04:53] │
│ 02 - Nature Of The Game [05:00] │
│ 03 - Once Again [05:00] │
│ 04 - Never Love Again [04:13] │
│ 05 - Eye Of The Storm [03:52] │
│ 06 - Until You Believe [05:03] │
│ 07 - The Great Fall [04:04] │
│ 08 - Call On Me [04:39] │
│ 09 - Emelie [04:57] │
│ 10 - Fall Down [04:15] │
│ 11 - Castaway [04:39] │
│ 12 - One Step Away [04:39] │
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│ Total Length : [55:14 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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