The debut album of the Czech band THE RAYS OF THE SUN is going round for the third time in my CD Player and even though the thermometer shows nearly 25 degrees, the dark rock does not warm me from inside. I can recommend Living Flowers Gallery to all rock fans who like it bleak or atmospheric from time to time. I would not say that the compositions are of bad quality, but my personal flavour is quite far away from THE RAYS OF THE SUN´s music.
Songs like Follow Copy are really predestined to lean back and relax, although in the middle of the song the speed changes a little bit and gets heavier. In my opinion this long track (it lasts over 7 minutes) is the best one and shows the potentiality in writing songs, which can and will be enlarged in future – I am sure! Other songs pass by like a gentle river, nothing really impressive happens, nothing extraordinary or outstanding. Some tracks would need kind of acoustic fertilizer to let the Living Flowers Gallery grow!
Some songs´ parts are amazing like the cool guitar chords in the song mentioned above, but the varied voices (female and male) are a little bit poorly conceived to get the award of being eminently valuable. On the other hand it is very positive that the band is able to create an individual sound, this is hard to do and I like this effort. The band can manage to do a better album next time, if they work on the vocals, future could look sunnier for THE RAYS OF THE SUN!