Credits:

Big Wreck

Description:

Albatross didn’t begin as a Big Wreck project. The band had broken up after the poor commercial showing of 2001’s The Pleasure and the Greed, and lead singer Ian Thornley had gone on to form his own successful band, simply called Thornley, and life as we know it went on. Thornley is a fine singer, with a voice that mirrors Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, and he certainly didn’t need Big Wreck to continue on with his career, but he reconnected with Big Wreck guitarist Brian Doherty after some years, and the two went into the studio to record with Thornley’s current band. Albatross is the result, and the album was released under the Big Wreck moniker, even though it was essentially Thornley (the band) with the addition of Doherty as a third guitarist. That’s the story, and the album itself? It certainly sounds like Big Wreck, although it may be a little bit more refined and polished, but tracks like th