Music Spectrum went on an unscheduled hiatus in recent months. This review is part of the “basement notebooks”—old reviews written by hand but only being posted online. Enjoy!
Fireflight have the essence of Evanescence but with Jennifer Knapp or Krystal Meyers fronting the band. Fireflight’s Dawn Richardson has a pop rock voice in front of the band’s popped-out hard rock (“Brand New Day”). There are vocal harmonics like Evanescence which makes the sound ready for dark, flashing light visuals, but Unbreakable actually remains rather homogeneous rhythmically.
“Unbreakable,” “The Hunger,” and “Stand Up” are where Fireflight needs to be to go forward. The songs have a good hard rock guitar riff with a pop accessible vocal and melody. Without that good riff, though, as evidenced on most of the other songs, Fireflight will go dark—as in extinguished.
Fireflight
Flicker Records
Provident-Integrity
