Anavris – Eleven Eyes of a Simple Man [EP]

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October 4, 2009, 12:10 AM

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Uptempo rock with a sprinkle of attitude and a splash of bland predictability. Although the production of "Eleven Eyes of a Simple Man" leaves it feeling a bit flat, all of the fundamentals of this EP are well thought out and well executed. That said, there's nothing particularly special about the music. They are like a generic hard rock band of 2 years ago, with elements of emo in there. Anavris are a mass appeal band and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them as a flash in the pan in years to come. For me personally, they hold nothing special at all.

Reminding me, for the most part of Hundred Reasons, they rise above being creative to play music that they like listening to. Although between some of the tracks I sense a conflict, as different members try to pull the music towards the style that they enjoy. The final song on the "Eleven Eyes Of A Simple Man" reminds me o the beginning of Limp Bizkit's version of Behind Blue Eyes. Proving that they can play slow songs and show how diverse they are with their style, before launching into a fully emo finale with the singer shouting his head off and guitars flying across the room and everyone puking in the corner and people jumping out of windows.

It all seems a bit forced to me. Like the whole album has been focus grouped by the contestants on The Apprentice and then, as one of their tasks, have made an album that they can sell, based on what they found out from the young people as to the type of music they like. It has that mixed sense of trying to tick boxes with music listener and trying to play a style of music after reading about it in a book.

Each element of the band is pretty poor, but has the potential to be very good. They are technically very talented and control their instruments very well, it's just that they seem a bit short on the ideas front, with a very generic sound that stinks of old socks. At the moment, they could go into a career as very capable session musicians, but not in their own right. The singer is singing about things I couldn't care less about and most of the time is singing about nothing much and seems to be writing lyrics, just because a rock band needs a singer to sing words, not just make grunting noises.

Not that it's without merit. It's energetic and has a fast tempo and would sound pretty decent played loud, so young people can jump around, bouncing into each other, paying more attention to running into each other that to the music itself. Those are the people who might enjoy it.

There's potential for Anavris to be good, they just need to continue developing and creating their own style that brings something interesting and different to a party that as we know is extremely full.

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