A Crime Called...
Beyond These Days

THE REVIEW

Making rock nowadays is certainly not easy. After all, as we know, everything (or almost everything) has already been said and discovered. This difficulty can be found in most of today's productions by both well-known and lesser-known names which, inevitably, do nothing but mimic each other. So what to do?! Should one dive into something personal and in some ways stimulating, or head straight for the well-trodden path of the "already heard"? Well, in the case of A Crime Called, we can say that the second option is definitely more suited to them given the results achieved in "Beyond These Days".

This eight-track album seems like the classic collection of b-sides released by any 90s American band (Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Black Stone Cherry), a work where the vast majority of the tracks wink at sugary melodies and chart-topping singles. The only somewhat atypical track is the opener, namely "Out Of Flow," where the quartet arrives with a sonic wall on the verge of heavy that hits the mark but then goes on to lose itself with a series of unimpressive near-covers. It's a shame to be so critical of this band, but it's truly complex to find something original or at least worthy of mention in their proposal. To be objective, this is really a pity because the musicians know their stuff technically, adept at creating soundscapes up to par, but not equally so in giving the proposal personality. Another sore point is the (poor) use of the English language, overly Italianized and reaching its peak in the two versions of the album title on the cover and the CD itself (the first correctly written as "Beyond These Days" and the second as "Beyond This Days"). If we want to start with the flaws for a brighter future, pronunciation (and grammatical rules following) is definitely the point to start over from; for the rest, with a bit more courage, something interesting might emerge in the future.

We'll see!