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Translation from the original German

3RDegree - Narrow-caster

Apophenia (4.45)
It works (5.05)
Narrow-caster (3.09)
Live with this forever (5.09)
Cautionary tale (5.05)
The proverbial banana peel (3.09)
Young once (5.14)
Scenery (5.49)
Free for All (4.35)
The last gasp (4.57)

A little joke at the beginning: Somehow I did in the band name always to think of Pedigree dog food - but only marginally, haha. 3RDegree is another promising young band from the land of unlimited possibilities. The 4 boys describe their music as power pop and prog that comes out about even. The compositions are probably too uncommercial to be played on the radio and act yet rarely too complex. In some places, I can see parallels to IZZ, even though spite of those poporientierteren part of their songs, much more opposite poles create. When no one hears 3RDegree disharmonic sounds. Everything is glattgebügelt and yet somehow strange. A specialty seems to me the polyphonic vocal harmonies to be. The voice of lead singer / keyboardist George Dobbs is very pleasant listen to. He uses a lot of head voice, despite its rather high Gesangsart. Again, it reminds me something to Tom Galgano (IZZ). The entertaining CD boasts 10 different songs. Because even take something punkige rock songs on experimental substance, only to be followed by a ballad to be.
Conclusion: In the big picture and full 3RDegree have enough potential to the scene aufzufallen. When you listen to the CD is missing me then but somehow that certain something that tickles and lured the album over and over again hang up.

Added: Saturday, 29 November 2008

by: Daniel Eggenburger