Avalon Delivers
Posted August 02, 2007
By KevinMcNeese_NRT, Staff Reviewer
Avalon's fifth studio album stayed close to home, only venturing into new tertirory for a visit here and there. Much of what we've grown to love about Avalon, the amazing harmonies, the catchy pop tunes, the ballads and the vertical lyrics, are all found on Oxygen. The album starts off looking a little dull with the first three tracks. The phrase "been here, heard that" kept coming to mind, and then the album takes off for the next 5 tracks. The rest of the album is give or take. Songs like "Never Givin' Up," "Undeniably You" and "The Glory" are the future of Avalon! Possibly one of the best songs ever released from the group is "Make It Last Forever." All four members gave amazing vocal performance on this song. It's a fresh new sound that is extreamly high energy, which is much needed from this group. The title track is extremly cliche' ("You are my oxygen/I breathe you in/I breathe you out") but it works. All in all, Avalon delivers again, hardly ever missing a beat. The vocals are strong, the lyrics are great and some of these songs will simply never leave your head...kind of like...oxygen (speaking of cliches'!) View All Music And Book Reviews By KevinMcNeese_NRT | View KevinMcNeese_NRT's Profile
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