All Hours

In Flagrante Delicto

2.5/5

You’d almost expect a CD titled "In Flagrante Delicto" to have an edgy, risqué sound; however, the debut CD of this name by Hollywood based pop rock outfit All Hours very quickly proves to never judge a book by its cover … or a CD by its title. Instead, listeners will be surprised by very polished, predictable tunes that blend into the background way too easily. And it’s not that the twelve tracks on this musical offering are necessarily bad, they’re just not remarkable. Front man Gilly Leads has a good voice, although it sometimes has a tendency to sound like Jakob Dylan (of the Wallflowers), or on some tracks, Royston Langdon (of Spacehog). There just isn’t anything distinctive about the band’s sound or style, and the songs seem to have been overproduced to a point where they may have lost anything that would have given them the edge that could have set them apart from dozens of other similar bands. All Hours has potential, and it’s inevitable that the toe-tapping “Make it Right” or ballad “Hurricane” end up in rotation on “hot adult contemporary” stations across North America. As a whole, "In Flagrante Delicto" would best suit a mellow evening at home with friends.

+Melissa
2005