The 22nd album from this artist from USA.
Neal Morse did the mandolin, percussion, guitars and vocals here. His band contributed with drums, bass, guitars, piano, organ, synths and vocals.
Some extra guests added marimba, percussion, woodwinds, guitars, strings and backing vocals.
Neal Morse returned again with a double CD album. This time in a band format who also included Mike Portnoy, a long standing cooperative of his.
Neal Morse's albums is either progressive rock, singer/songwriter or Christian praise music. I am only concentrating on the progressive rock part of his discography in this blog.
The Similitude Of A Dream is a mix of progressive rock and singer/songwriter music though...
One hundred of six minutes gives us some substantial amount of singer/songwriter stuff in the americana vein. This part of these two CDs stinks and is pretty bad.
The rest of this far too long album is progressive rock. There is stuff on this album Neal Morse should have left as outtakes for a retrospective box. Or he should just have erased it and not bothered the mankind about it.
There is a lot of good progressive rock on this album and those songs are the ones I want to remember from this album.
The music is in the usual Neal Morse tradition and his fans will be left satisfied. I am not so sure if he will win many new fans with this album, though.
Nevertheless, this is a good album.
3 points
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