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Neverending White Lights: Act II The Blood and the Life Eternal Review
22 December 2007, Allan @ 7:03 pm

Daniel Victor released another album to his Neverending White Lights project on October 30th of this year. For the first act (an album I enjoyed thoroughly) he had the likes of Dallas Green, Scott Anderson (Finger Eleven), Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace), Nick Hexum of 311 and more. Despite all the featured vocalists it was a great album and I believed Victor could do some more solo stuff to garner some respect.

Act II features 5 tracks with Victor on vocals, but not as an impressive as a lineup I would say when it comes to featured singers. Granted Auf Def Maur, Aqualung, Lexi from Magneta Lane, Hawksley Workman, Sune Rose Wagner (Raveonettes) etc is still pretty good company.

Musically I didn’t dig this one, even if it wasn’t much of a draw for me when it came to lead singers. A lot of the songs on the first act really displayed the lead singer’s vocal range as well as musically it couldn’t have been any better. Act II feels too mellow and sobering at times that there’s no joy to listen to some of these tracks even if it features an artist I greatly respect.

Victor does get points for putting more solo stuff out there. It looks like it might be a either Victor getting more respect for his own personal work or he couldn’t get 3 or 4 other singers to contribute. As I finish listening, the only featured singer that really had some great skill displayed was Lexi Valetine of Magneta Lane, Coury Palermo and Hawksley Workman. Otherwise vocally the “bigger names” of contributors didn’t really add anything as it was forgettable and had me rather surprised when reading the tracklisting when I couldn’t really hear/feel the contributor.

Overall too depressing of an album and ultimately disappointed in the tracks I would’ve been looking forward to. This gets a 2.75 out of 5. Some decent tracks on here at least (especially with Victor at the helm). Maybe he was better off doing a solo album (it would sell less but I think it would’ve been a better piece of work)

Here are my favorite tracks off the album:

Nothing I Can Save by The Neverending White Lights

Black Is The Colour of My True Love’s Heart by The Neverending White Lights featuring Lexi Valetine

Buy Act 2: Blood And The Life Eternal @ Amazon
Buy Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies @ Amazon

11 Comments for “Neverending White Lights: Act II The Blood and the Life Eternal Review”

1. Daniel Victor: pájaro herido, con genes argentinos « Les Paradis Artificiels — December 23, 2007 @ 8:40 am
   

   [...] Es canadiense, de madre argentina y padre italiano (Jack Genaro, un productor de discos que suele subirse al escenario como invitado de su hijo). Daniel Victor graba sus discos bajo el nombre: Neverending White Lights. En ese proyecto él toca todos los instrumentos, y la mayoría de las canciones son interpretadas por cantantes diferentes. La idea es unir diversas voces y estilos y seguir sonando como una banda. En Myspace.com, Victor dice que su música suena como “Un pájaro muriendo en tus brazos mientras su cuerpo sin vida refleja tu frágil corazón”. Estos temas los encontré en el blog Allan´s World Music [...]

2. Daniel Victor — December 25, 2007 @ 8:41 pm
   

   2.75 / 5 ? Are you serious!?

3. Allan — December 26, 2007 @ 12:49 am
   

   Is that really you Daniel Victor? If so I left an e-mail.

4. Damien V — December 28, 2007 @ 12:19 am
   

   A fair review but I would still give it 4 to 4.5 for “The Living” alone. A terrific disc in my opinion. It made my top 50 for 2007, thats for sure.

5. Allan — December 28, 2007 @ 4:30 am
   

   ^ I don’t think Daniel Victor would call it a fair review. He was pretty insulted by it lol. I liked reading how you liked it on your blog though.

6. Online Shop — December 28, 2007 @ 8:09 am
   

   Thats great info you shared here, content rich and informative, to the point, many thanks and have a great Christmas

7. Random Goods — December 28, 2007 @ 1:30 pm
   

   Thanks for this informative overview I enjoyed checking it, all the best for holidays, regs

8. Sam — February 25, 2008 @ 6:51 am
   

   the first album is better..but this isnt bad..

   and to the person that reviewed this..its SCOTT Anderson of Finger Eleven, not JASON.

9. Allan — February 25, 2008 @ 9:42 am
   

   Well I fucked up there. thanks.

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