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""Run For Cover" is certainly not Gary Moore's most harmonious album, but it contains such nuggets that it is simply unthinkable to skip it."
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4/5
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Unlike "Wild Frontier", which will succeed it but which was recorded by only three musicians, this 9th solo album of Gary Moore gives the place to guests. Indeed, the Irishman shares here the vocals with Glenn Hughes, who was just coming out of a 10 years wandering period, Phil Lynott, whose last official recordings will be this one, and with the ex-UFO Neil Carter. It is the same for the keyboards which are the work of Don Airey, Andy Richards and the already mentioned Neil Carter and the drums on which follow one another Gary Ferguson, Charlie Morgan and Paul Thompson (Roxy Music). In total, no less than 11 musicians are credited on this album which paradoxically sounds relatively sober, due to a general use of keyboards much more measured but especially of sounds much less anchored in their time than on "Wild Frontier".
Yet the hard FM turn of this upcoming album is already here. The subject is here very soft at the limit of the pop. And next to tracks that find without discussion their place in the Hard Rock universe like the nervous 'Run For Cover', 'Military Man' or 'Out In The Fields', we find much calmer tracks. Thus the re-recording of the superb ballad 'Empty Rooms', of which we could already find a longer version (and thus less likely to be broadcasted on the radio) on 'Victims Of The Future' or the very pop 'Listen To Your Heartbeat' and 'Once In A Life Time' show us a very 'general public' side of Gary Moore. In these last two cases, the sobriety evoked previously as regards keyboards is no longer appropriate and we cheerfully approach the clichés of the genre.
But the quality of the compositions and the melodies, married to a dexterity which does not fail on the part of the guitarist, makes that the a little shaky aspect of this album passes in the second plan. Tracks like 'Empty Rooms', 'Out In The Fields' or 'Military Man', all of which have become classics, are simply unstoppable. Run Fo Cover', although less universal, is also one of Gary Moore's great songs, or even Hard Rock. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Run For Cover - 04:13
02. Reach For The Sky - 04:46
03. Military Man - 05:40
04. Empty Rooms - 04:17
05. Out Of My System - 04:01
06. Out In The Fields - 04:17
07. Nothing To Lose - 04:41
08. Once In A Lifetime - 04:18
09. All Messed Up - 04:52
10. Listen To Your Heartbeat - 04:31
LINEUP:
Andy Richards: Claviers
Bob Daisley: Basse
Charlie Morgan: Batterie
Don Airey: Claviers
Gary Ferguson: Batterie
Gary Moore: Chant / Guitares
Glenn Hughes: Chant / Basse
James Barton: Batterie
Neil Carter: Chant / Claviers
Paul Thompson: Batterie
Phil Lynott: Chant / Basse
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