Excess All Areas

Excess All Areas is a work that wrapped SHY’s high singing ability and melodic sense in glittering keyboards and a well-ordered guitar sound. While the songs are catchy, the rhythm and arrangement have fine variation, so they do not end as mere lightness. Renowned as the band’s masterpiece, it is a representative record. On “Emergency,” “Can't Fight the Nights” and “Break Down the Walls,” big choruses and careful playing give the whole album an arena-rock breadth. In particular, “Emergency” is a classic representative of the band. Songs like “Young Heart” and “Devil Woman” breathe the band’s full playing too. Characteristically British delicacy and the elation of 1980s hard rock naturally overlap. As a masterpiece of AOR/melodic rock, it is a long-loved record.