★★★★★
Deviled by the faithful because of the ousting of bucolic belter John O'Daniel for the straight-up, straight-ahead pipes of Bubba Keith, perennial supporting act Point Blank did snag some chart action with American Exce$$, but ultimately the album proved a hollow victory as the band fell off the map, labeled another faceless AOR '80s entry...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
With the success of their eponymous debut recording, Point Blank had a reasonable amount of momentum heading into the studio to record Second Season. But rather than rearrange or pepper things up a bit in the recording process, Point Blank pretty much stay the same as they did for their first record: a five-piece (they ditched the keyboardist) writing songs around crunchy blues guitar riffs that resemble a hybrid of British hard rock (Zeppelin, Deep Purple) and Southern rock...
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2008-08-27
★★★★★
Point Blank's second album, the aptly-titled Second Season, disappeared without a trace, which meant that they needed one thing from their third -- airplay -- so they could get some success underneath their belt. Maybe that's why they titled the album Airplay. Even if their motivations weren't so clearly crass and commercial, there's little question that the focus on Airplay results in a quantum leap over their meandering debut...
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2008-08-27