The fourth album from this band from USA.
The band is a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
The band had support from a brass orchestra and a string orchestra.
I have always rated Mr Aaron Clift (vocals and keyboards) and his band pretty highly. They have managed to carve out a small part of the progressive rock scene with their rather unusual music... or unusual on a recording. I think their music is more usual when it comes to the pub scene around USA and Canada.
Take good old progressive rock, add soul, stadium rock and brass rock, then add a bit gospel, AOR and outlaw country'n'western.
This is exotic here in Europe and Great Britain. It exotic on an album. Live.... not so sure.
The vocals is very good as per usual from the band. Ditto for the rest of the band. The strings and brass adds a lot of soul and god-bless-america to the music.
This almost fifty minutes long album still delivers the goods and cement this band's status as one of the more unusual but still very good bands from USA.
It is full of some really interesting details too. The music is still very melodic too.
It is an album which will start the progresive rock year 2023 with a big bang.
There is no really outstanding tracks here and that is my only gripe with an album who deserve to be heard by a lot of people.
3.5 points
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