BRIDGER — Bridger (review)

BRIDGER — Bridger album cover Album · 2011 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Stephen
What looks good on paper turns out to be a bland output at the end of the day. Led by Glen Bridger and fronted by Terry Ilous, my fave singer back in XYZ days and right now at Great White, this album didn't show their true talents. A very laid back album, stripping down the rock and introduced more bluesy, even country feel to some songs, but Ilous' voice is still a major attraction and he's done a perfect job here.

I'm not saying it's a bad album, in fact there are several fave tracks I like here such as 'Tuesday Afternoon' and 'How Long', both has great chorus and also served as a nice openers. But too many average and plain forgettable tunes here, say like 'On The Ledge' or 'Don't Push Me', uninteresting at all, or 'Gonna Get Better', nothing's better for sure, or 'Once In A Lifetime', a ballad title that had been used up thousand times but I'll prefer Firehouse or Von Groove's song all the way.

'I'm Free', an acoustical driven track with happy vibe, is a great track and 'Live For The Moment' is a soothing piece of tremendous ballad which weirdly reminds me to La Cryma Christi, a J-Rock band. They also put up 'Heaven and Hell' cover here, not bad at all, quite good, but is it really necessary? If you're okay to less-harder version of rock, Bridger's eponymous debut is easy on the ears, but I know they're capable of doing something better, much better to be precise.
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Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
It's a bit on the poppy side, but there definitely are some good tunes on it.

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