Issue 447

Little Red

The first thing you notice about Little Red, whether live or on record, is that they're having fun. A whole lot of fun. It's obviously there in their beaming smiles and the way they jump around both onstage and between styles, but most of all it's their music that's fun. It's drawn from the wellspring of archetypal summer music, with tight vocal harmonies, immediately catchy choruses, and lyrics that never try to get too deep. And the musicianship isn't half bad, either, though their debut, 'Listen To Little Red' certainly isn't a slick studio creation.

Opeth
Watershed
Roadrunner

According to the Encarta Dictionary, a watershed can refer to "an important period, time, event, or factor that marks a change or division". So is 'Watershed' a turning point for Opeth? History will be the judge, but for me this album is not so much a turning point as it is the destination to which the band, or perhaps more precisely Mikael kerfeldt, has been heading since day one. It is the album where Opeth achieve just about the perfect marriage between their dark death metal roots and their increasingly prevalent progressive and folk influences.

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