{"id":1277,"date":"2011-11-02T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:31:04","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Tracer &#8211; Spaces in between"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracer are a rock band from Australia.  If you&#8217;re already thinking they&#8217;ll sound like ACDC, Airbourne and Rose Tattoo, Australia&#8217;s best known rock exports then you&#8217;re completely wrong I&#8217;m afraid.  Tracer blend 90&#8217;s stoner rock with 70s hard rock to produce some great music.  The band formed in 2004 after the collapse of The Brown Brothers.  Tracer is a three-piece band but they produce as big a sound as any four or five piece band<\/p>\n<p>Comments on a few of the tracks..<\/p>\n<p>The album opens with &#8221;Too much&#8221;, a great hard rock song.  The vocals in this song remind me very strongly of The Cult&#8217;s Ian Astbury.  This is a really good track and is one of my favourites on the album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The Bitch&#8221; has more of a stoner rock feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Louder than this&#8221; has a real blues feel to it, and builds to a stomping rhythm with plenty of power while still keeping that bluesy feel &#8211; definitely a highlight of the album.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Voice in the rain&#8221; is a slower more melodic track which features some great vocals.  This is another standout track for me, and has a Bad Company feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>Tracer&#8217;s album, &#8221;Spaces in between&#8221; is a great piece of work.  It combines the stoner rock feel of bands like Clutch with 70s hard rock and vocals that sound like they come from The Cult&#8217;s Ian Astbury.  All the elements are strong, but together they&#8217;re just superb.  The album has plenty of variety as the various tracks blend the influences differently so one track may have a real stoner rock feel and the next track can be more classic hard rock, but they do this without them losing a common feel to them which takes some doing.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a band to check out and an album that should be perfectly at home in most rock fans collections.<\/p>\n<p>Tracer are:<\/p>\n<p>Leigh Brown &#8211; Vocals and Bass<br \/>\nMichael Brown &#8211; Vocals and Guitar<br \/>\nAndre Wise &#8211; Drums<\/p>\n<p>Track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. Too much<br \/>\n2. Push<br \/>\n3. Walk alone<br \/>\n4. Louder than this<br \/>\n5. Devil ride<br \/>\n6. The bitch<br \/>\n7. Voice in the rain<br \/>\n8. Spaces in between<br \/>\n9. Dead inside<br \/>\n10. Save my breath<br \/>\n11. All in my head<br \/>\n12. Won&#8217;t let it die (Run Mary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracer are a rock band from Australia. If you&#8217;re already thinking they&#8217;ll sound like ACDC, Airbourne and Rose Tattoo, Australia&#8217;s best known rock exports then you&#8217;re completely wrong I&#8217;m afraid. Tracer blend 90&#8217;s stoner rock with 70s hard rock to produce some great music. The band formed in 2004 after the collapse of The Brown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd_reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}