Outstanding Claims

Description

Outstanding Claims is a compilation album by the British rock band Fresh Claim, released in the UK on Plankton Records in August 1993.

Not so much a “best of” as an “everything of” compilation from London’s hard working heavy blues-rockers, this contains all their studio recordings, that is, all of ‘Odd One Out’, ‘Huds Continental’ and ‘In Times Of Rain’ plus three previously unreleased songs. «Half My Life» and «The Night Of The Storm» are both rockers and «Bleeding For You» is a mellow jazz/blues thing with a touch of Claptonesque guitar. It is Simon Law’s guitar work that gives Fresh Claim the edge, he is firmly rooted in the Kossoff/Page school of riff building and blues scale lead work. The band occasionally betray a hint of funk and reggae in songs like «Love And Rockets» or «Brother In Need» and there are some mellow moments such as «A Choice of Shadows», but they are most at home playing those out-and-out rockers with Zeppelin style riffs like «Huds Continental» and my personal favourite «Paris Airshow». This tape is an excellent introduction to the band who Cross Rhythms once called “Surely the most underrated Christian band in Britain” (but it’s not really fair to quote that as I wrote it myself!). [Andy Long, Cross Rhythms, February 1994]

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CD tracklist:

01. Half My Life – 4:07
02. Night of the Storm – 4:05
03. Easy Way Out – 3:31
04. Cars and Girls – 3:22
05. Brother In Need – 4:14
06. In Times of Rain (Over You) – 3:44
07. Catch Me Out – 4:27
08. Hard As Nails – 2:37
09. Bleeding for You – 4:38
10. Huds Continental – 3:07
11. Love and Rockets – 3:29
12. Too Many Tears – 4:01
13. Don’t Wanna Be Like – 3:30
14. A Choice of Shadows – 4:54
15. Paris Airshow – 3:44
16. Strong Enough to See – 3:11
17. There’s Someone Loving You – 2:59
18. Sunday Morning Dawn – 4:56
19. Yesterday’s Hero (Is Tomorrow’s Fool) – 2:57
20. Enough Is Enough – 3:37
21. Visions Never Sleep – 3:54

Note: Re-issued on CD by Plankton Records in 2011.

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