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Released October
19th 2007
LMC216
EAN6419922002162
Swedish
melodic rockers House Of Shakira are back
“Retoxed” and ready to freshen up the melodic rock
scene with their potent trademark blend of lush vocals and
contagious musical hooks. The bands trademark melodies
and vocals lines are here “Retoxed” stronger than ever with
the music created to support the vocals and carry the lyrics
to the listener. Not just content with working the main
vocal melody the band have taken great care to ensure the
background musical and vocal melodies are there to support the
bands trademark vocals, the band call this the “Abba
inspiration”. The new freshness is attributed to the
band being more positive than ever and this is reflected in
the feel of the 11 tracks.
On
the albums direction guitarist Anders Lundström states, “It
seems like for every record we twist our idea of making music
a notch. Not much, but still there is a difference through all
our releases. We never got trapped doing a record that
followed the trend of the day, and the return to the “original
sound” of the band. We’ve just progressed and followed what
happened in our lives. This is a pretty happy record and that
reflects the period of the band and the member’s
life’s”.
“Retoxed”
freshness is also attributed by the band to them going back to
writing as a collective unit (as they did on their melodic
rock classic debut “Lint”) in the rehearsal studio instead of
5 musicians working individually on ideas as they had done for
their previous 2 albums. The band state, “The album wrote
itself when we finally agreed on how we were going to write
this one”. Not only was the working practice
influenced by the band going back to the “Lint” days, the band
also revisited what made them inspired back then and what has
happened in their life’s since to add a new
perspective. This coupled with the bands continued
ambition of writing a perfect song spawned the production
writing sessions for what is now “Retoxed”.
Anyone
expecting a remake of “Lint” will be surprised to hear the
fresh new vigour prevalent in the bands music and House Of
Shakira are ready to bring onboard a new generation of melodic
rock lovers worldwide and hit the road in support of the new
release. | 
