Enchant - Tug Of War
	Released: 2003 Label: InsideOut / InsideOut America Cat. No.: IOMCD 131 / IOMACD 2063-2 Total Time: 66:27
	Reviewed by: Davide Guidone, August 2003 I already know that, in writing this review, many people won’t like it. The reason is very simple: I’m very bored of Enchant! Why? Because they’ve been writing the same music for more or less ten years now. How is it possible? Am I the only one that thinks this way or does someone else think it like me? More or less every year Enchant used to publish an album, and I hoped to find something new and innovative in the prog range. But unfortunately it isn’t so. Let’s begin with the style that isn’t one of the most original: I always considered Enchant too much near to Kansas and Rush. In the same way Ted Leonard’s voice, amazing from the point of view of the technique, reminded me of Geddy Lee’s in the late Seventies. The truth is that every record is too equally balanced: every song is generally a mid-tempo piece, without ballads (even on Tug Of War the last song "Comatose" can be judged in this manner), up-tempo tracks or any variation. Instead it is the technique that is always the main characteristic. Douglas Ott shows all his abilities on the electric guitar, in the same style as usual, sometimes falling into the self-demonstrative technique. I did notice the presence of new keyboard player Bill Jenkins on the instrumental "Progtology," maybe the best song on the record. I suggest Tug Of War only to the Enchant supporters; all others would do better to skip it. Rating: 2/5 [See also Keith's, Clayton's, Bobo's, Steph's and Gary's reviews -ed.] More about Tug Of War: Track Listing: Sinking Sand (7:09) / Tug O' War (7:41) / Holding The Wind (5:45) / Beautiful (4:28) / Queen Of The Informed (7:01) / Living In A Movie (6:58) / Long Way Down (4:57) / See No Evil (5:52) / Progtology (6:46) / Comatose (8:50) Musicians: Ted Leonard – Vocals Douglas A. Ott – Guitars Ed Platt – Bass Sean Flanegan – Drums Bill Jenkins – Keyboards Contact: Website: www.theoasis.cc Note: will open new browser window Email: fanmail@theoasis.cc Discography A Blueprint of the World (1995) Wounded (1997) Time Lost (1997) Break (1998) Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10 (2000) Blink Of An Eye (2002) Tug Of War (2003) Live At Last (2004)
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