Sutton/Hoo certainly does not fail to give the impression on this album that they can send a concert audience away pleasantly sweaty from the noise-and-glass-beer business of personal trust. After all, they have already won the newcomer competition of the taste-conscious SWR. Nevertheless, the testimony of their CD "Just A Matter Of Time" receives the designation "effortful". The studio sound may be too sterile for this combo from the Karlsruhe/Stuttgart area. Mainly, the songs lack atmospheric density and compactness. Guitar solos and the freshly added organ are not enough as a silicon substitute to bolster the flabby basic structure of the songs. One also misses an inherent dramatic relationship between the songs; the album resembles a sampler, as if the material had been compiled from different eras of the band's genesis. Occasionally, one can sense how dirty and straightforward Sutton Hoo might rock live - but that is only a benevolent guess, as the first, and even more the second impression, amounts to haste and clattering. Unfortunately, there is also a lack of vocal talent. It is far too head-voice oriented and, with all due respect, sounds quite typical of Karlsruhe-Stuttgart, reminiscent of studying economics and the upper middle service. What remains of the rock has also been heard far too often and even more insignificantly. According to the label The/FinestNoise, Sutton Hoo has existed since 2002 and had previously released an EP and an LP. The stay in the USA of one of the two singers led to the realization that they would not continue on the path taken in their first two works. So, Sutton Hoo started a new beginning in March 2006. And the boys seem to still be there.
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