The album starts with an extremely useless intro that lasts only a few seconds. Hell! Who cares for that nowadays?! Leave it out next time, please…The album continues with some nice but not too appealing tracks. Also the clean vocals are scaring me off a bit but it’s not like I wouldn’t put this disc into my player anymore.

 

But then the album comes to the point of the sixth track, ‘Touching Void’, and I can only come up with one word when listening to that song: WOW! This song kicks some serious ass. There’s this atmosphere that I’d like to hear in songs so much but unfortunately I don’t hear it that often. 
... Which is quite an understatement, actually. For those of you who know the song ‘Gently’ of Slipknot’s album ‘Iowa’, the atmosphere in ‘Touching Void’ is quite comparable to that one. A small minor of the song is the outro…like’s there’s an extremely annoying mosquito buzzing in your ear.

 

That there is quite some variety on this album is shown in the eleventh song on the album, ‘Bebeah’. In this song there’s an almost punkrock-alike sing along chorus, which, in my opinion, Liftid does way better than the actual punkrock bands who do the same trick.

 

Not to forget the last track on the album, ‘Stripclub’, which starts as some kind of Luie Hond-alike reggae song, which eventually becomes a bit more powerful. The song itself isn’t that strong but the fact that Liftid is trying to vary a lot on one album sure makes me wanna give ‘em more credits than your average alternative band.

 

My advice to the band is to leave out most of the clean vocal parts and throw some more aggressive roars in. It’s not that the clean vocals are awful to listen to, but they just don’t get me moving. Let’s just say I’ve heard a lot better and I like Liftid’s aggressive parts better than the 'easy listening' parts. For a Dutch band though, Liftid has quite some potential to grow way bigger than they are at the moment. Keep up the good work guys!