Rosegarden Funeral Party : "At the Stake"

What I can tell I am going to need from this project one minute into it , is to hear where the Siouxsie tribute ends and where they begin. Vocally she does make different choice in where her intervals go in terms of melody. Tonal is where the Siouxsie Tribute begins. Her backing band is not doing her any real favors , though the guitar offers the most chance of redemption as it can hit a bouncy punk jangle after droning on the same single note melody most of the song. Perhaps it is where they sit in the mix but the drums and bass do not slither or drive the way they should. The arrangement of the first song played into this to some extent as they are more present going into "Tortured Decline". Lyrically it lost love lamentations. The guitar continue to push for a more rock direction and vocally she is willing to accomodate.

There is a smoother dynamic dialing back of intensity for what is the best song so far with "Salvation and Saving Face". This shows the Siouxsie influnce can work and nbe molded into their won thing. Does it still have that vibe? Yes, and the melodies are strong enough that it doesn't matter. There are other bands who can take a band's sound and make it work by writing damn good songs to distract you from this fact. Chevelle and their early Tool fixation being one case in point. They are more explosive on "Justifacation" and while it might work well live it is still not as good as the previous song. She does go into more of a head register, which is what I need to hear more of from her. She does have some power to her voice , but not get a great deal of vocal colors . Though she has  nice alto rnage she dip down into .

The singer of Sub Sahara joins her on "Ghost of You" . It goes past Siouxsie and feels more like Savages. The bass is not as beefy as Savages , nor are they as aggressive as Savages. The song is very well written. I will give this album a 9. See you thought since I was going to be a little bristly about the Siouxsie thing that I would just pick this apart in the worst way, and I am a tough audience when it comes to this sort of thing , because I have been listening to Siouxsie for 25 years , but they are good at what they do and excellent song writers worthy of carrying the goth torch now that we have not heard anything from Savages.