The West End has Risen
author: John Cooper-Martin
The West End is great unplugged, hard rock. Their songs either tell you such an interesting story that you find yourself becoming one or more of the characters in the story or they sing a song that rocks into the depth of your soul. Some of their songs even do both -- you find yourself believing, for a moment in time that you are one or more of the characters in the song and the depths of your soul are being rocked. The West End is a band who knows each other, musically, extremely well, as you can tell in their body of work, in their personal appearances, and in the album, \"Risen.\" The four play rock, almost as one.
Also, while they are primitive Americana rock, at the same time they remind me, some, in very positive ways, of the early Bruce Springsteen and what I imagine Billy Joel would have sounded like with more musical accompaniment. Joel might have been more interesting; The West End definitely is interesting, already. Yet The West End has a style of its own, which I find very unique.
Listen to the songs, on “Risen.” I think you\'ll hear an album you just can’t quite put down and stop listening to it; I did. The West End rocks! Enjoy rocking with them!
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