Welcome back to Journey. New lineup again ... but who cares. Welcome
back !
With Arrival, Journey is back in business with its typical elements
of their most classic lineup. The results is a fourteen - track (Japan
only) set of absolutely pop-rock greatness. Arrival is a killer
: wonderful vocals, melodic keyboards, typical riff and perfect catchy
song structures and arrangements inducing pure flying delight on every
listen.
Evoking the best of late eighties US hard-rock (Poison, Ratt, Dare)
while being much smoother and quiet, Journey delivers the nostalgia
lessons. First song, Higher Place, is the kind of song that will
hunted you ... even if you have only listen to it once. And what can
I say of third track, Signs Of Life : actually I can't say anything
as you have to discover by your own this unbelievable song !!!
And it goes on and on from the first track to the last one. I repeat
myself here, but what a lesson of Perfection with capital P.
Can you believe this record is in Japan since six month now : Lucky
you !!!
It doesn't take much listening to realize that Arrival is a masterpiece
and Journey are pop-rock practitioners of the highest order. If you
are a fan of that type of music, listening to Arrival becomes obviously
an unbelievable moment of freedom and joy. Arrival is really
a special record which is not to be missed.