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A DAY’S WORK: A Home in the Rain
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Release

Style
A DAY’S WORK: A Home in the Rain 2006-07-01 melodic power rock
Label
DAWA music
Website
www.adayswork.nl
Contact
info@adayswork.nl
Playing Time Cat. N°
40:13 DW-CD006
Review by Rating
Luc Descamps 9/10
nederlands Review
Dutch power rock band A Day’s Work presents an album with an enormous international character. The band is known for very powerful live performances and I have no problem whatsoever believing that. This is very powerful and yet very accessible pop-rock with AOR influences that brings the atmosphere of summer festivals into your living room.
Right from the first track the listener is blown away by extremely well produced power rock with magnificent quiet parts. The building up of energy can be compared with the best music in the genre. The hitsingle “Welcome Home” is carried by a pulsing bass and bears reference to U2 in their early (magnificent) years, Midnight Oil and even a bit to Boston. Still I believe that the hit potential of “My Ambulant Caress” I even bigger. Especially the chorus is so strong that it keeps on haunting in your head for hours.

But the band proves to be very skilled in making quiet music as well. “Words of Goodbye” seems to be the perfect emo-rock song with the gentleness of Coldplay. Gradually the power is being built up towards a stunning climax that could have been written by Bono and his band in the late seventies.
The band was invited by Marillion to join them on their European tour in 2005. No wonder: reigning guitars, gorgeous melodic rock and superb singing are the ingredients of both bands’ music. I’m not saying that A Day’s Work’s music is as sophisticated as Marillion’s; it’s much more pop oriented, but therefore perhaps the perfect link between pop and progressive rock.
The beautifully sung ballad “My Sad Day Ends” (guest vocals by Arjen van Wijk) reminds me just a little bit of Extreme’s “More Than Words” and puts an end to this magnificent cd. Just for a while though, ‘cause this is an album I will play on and on.

Musicians
Jochem: drums
Michiel: bass, backing vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
Maarten: guitar
Martijn: guitar
Paul: vocals, backing vocals
Tracklist
  1. A New line
  2. My Ambulant Caress
  3. What You Believe in
  4. Welcome Home
  5. Words of Goodbye
  6. Days Go By
  7. Become
  8. Open Up my Eyes
  9. Runaway
  10. My Sad Day Ends (All’s Distorted)
Discography
  1. Above and Within (2002)
    Drowning in What I Believe (2004)
    A Home In the Rain (2006)

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