AMARYLISS (RUSTIC GREEN VINYL)

Double LP pressing of Shinedown s fourth album Amaryllis on Rustic Green Colored Vinyl. With a trend toward the uplifting Shinedown push their sound in an increasingly positive direction on their fourth album Amaryllis. While the album still has the driving hard rock backbone that the band has been building their post-grunge sound upon for years there s something more anthemic about this effort as if every song is an attempt to rouse listeners out of their seats and to that end it s largely successful. Though songs like Adrenaline and Enemies still have a good hard edge to them the sweeping arrangements of tracks like Unity and I m Not Alright always seem to pull the album back into more inspirational waters. Even with this change of tone the album is still classic Shinedown and though this kind of triumphant mood will probably disappoint fans looking for something to cut loose and pump their fists to with such positive overtones at work at least it ll leave them feeling good about it.