SHY - S/t (Release: Oct, 2011 EU - Sep 21, 2011 JAP)

Here we go with the latest by this band from Birmingham, England. Replacing a lead singer is never an easy work to do but if this singer is Tony Mills then is much more difficult, but this time we can say... achieved. Most bands use to look for a singer who sounds like the former one but SHY decided to go on the difficult way and they succeeded. Lee Small, new singer, does a great work bringing his own personality to SHY's music and the mixing is real good.
The album opens with Land of a Thousand Lies a powerful track with catchy chorus starting with a long intro built on keys that, to be honest, i don't like much. So Many Tears is a faster track, Hard Rock in the vein of SHY. Ran out of Time is the first highligh, a strong song with great backing vocals and Lee Small providing fantastic vocals, while Breathe is a powerballad that after a couple of listening will catch you. Only for the Night is a beautiful mid-tempo but the absolute highlight is Over You, a little bit faster than a mid-tempo and a compact and elegant song, nice starting, catchy chorus, beautiful guitar solo, everything in this cut works but the keyboard work.

In summary, SHY returns to its original sound with vocals of new singer Lee Small that sounds away from Tony Mills but fix perfect with the band's sound. Production is ok but keys are discordant, inelegant and i would even say a little amateur, while songwriting is a little weak. Sound should be better.

Best of this album is Lee Small, worst of this album is keyboard work.

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More info: http://www.shyonline.co.uk/

Best Tracks (in order of preference):

Over You
Ran Out Of Time
Breathe

This album is worth of 3.6 out of 5 ROCKS!!!