Lifting Shadows
“I think it took a lot for me to find that sort of self-worth,” Haken singer Ross Jennings answers when asked if he feels vulnerable going solo. “And it took a lot of balls for me to pick up a guitar.”
Those who have watched Jennings lord the stage while performing live with his Haken comrades, though, wouldn’t have expected confidence to be an issue. But without the prog metal gusto blowing out behind him, releasing a solo album – on which Jennings provides all of the acoustic and electric guitar as well as vocals – is a very different affair.
Musically, twists off a tangent from the day job. While Haken are melodic, this is next level: pop hooks are picked over, plunging distortion, and wonky time signatures are largely kept
