Esoteric as it is, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Trevor Rabin has crafted a record that’s “stylistically tough to categorize”. But if one were to try, you could call Rabin’s latest, Rio, a guitar-driven, proggy, yet oh-so very poppy, country-and-western opus. Oh, and it’s loaded with political and social undertones regarding his native stomping ground of Johannesburg, South Africa, too. How’s that for an earful?
Of course, if you’re Rabin, this eclecticism is par for the course. After all, this is the man who wrote beloved radio staple Owner of a Lonely Heart yet still seems comfortable refuting all labels slung his way, instead “visiting other genres, and injecting influences along the way.”
