I know that this review should have been published on Rockezine months ago. I can hardly call “Storms Over Still Water” the new Mostly Autumn album, since it has been in the shops for over months now. Fact is that I had trouble making up my mind about this release.

The strangest thing happened. Every time I put the album in my cd player, my attention drifted away. By the time I found myself thinking ‘hey, what’s this I’m listening to. This sounds pretty good’, I could just catch the final chords of final track on the album. So I restarted the cd player with the attention to give the album a closer listening. After a few minutes attention started to drift away ... and so on ... and so on. It seemed that Mostly Autumn succeeded in a clever dirty trick. Saving the only interesting compositions for the closing of the album to conceal that they just recorded a below average album.

I almost had to review this album just playing one track each hour. This way I noticed a couple of thing I definitely do not like on “Storms Over Still Water”. I hate the opening seconds. These are the final seconds of the previous album, the more than excellent “Passengers”. I do not like the fact that Heather Findlay is showing a more rockier side of her usually stunning vocals (like, on a rare occasion “Carpe Diem”. I do not like the obvious Bowie references and the somewhat hidden Dream Theater influences.

For most I dislike the lack of character in songs. Some might call “Storms Over Still Water” the most consistent Mostly Autumn album ever, I would call it probably the most boring. I know it’s hard to come up with a follow up on a very successful album, but this could ... should have been much, much better.