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The record company YesterRock has felt the urge to release an album with the old Canadian band The Arrows. This band existed between 1981 and 1986 and gave the world 1 EP and 2 albums, a radio hit song Meet Me In The Middle. The singer Dean McTaggart was the backbone of the band that initially also included the hit maker David Tyson on keyboards. There is apparently a rising market for albums that are very old and out of print for a long time, so Stand Back gets another chance. In my eyes they could could have saved their strength, because the 80's pop sound on this album is extremely boring and out of touch. The first single Meet Me In The Middle, their hit, is typical inspired by the time they were around, the beginning of the 80's, the sound of Huey Lewis, but not even close to his level. Dean McTaggart is not convincing as a singer in each of the songs, and the next attempts are shy AOR rock, boring, bad and sad, and clinging on to some kind of help they direct their sound after the inspiration they could get in Foreigner, and especially in the song Girl In 313 there is a saxophone solo that could very well be taken directly from Foreigner's song Urgent. Some albums are good to give another shot with a re-release, but Stand Back from The Arrows are not such an album.
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