The 11th album from this British-Swedish band.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute, saxophone and vocals.
Andy Tillison has kept The Tangent together with the same musicians during the last albums and the band has become a big band in the progressive rock scene.
The band has indeed become a national institution and the various band members has also got their own projects.
The music on this album is the ususal eclectic mix of Canterbury scene prog and more melodic art rock.
There is though some pretty strong jazz influences on this album. They were probably there on the 2018 album Proxy too. It has just taken me some time to notice them.
On the opening tracks, Andy Tillison's vocals is laid on the top as in jazz vocals on some pretty jazzy music. We are not even talking Canterbury fusion/jazz here. We are talking US east coast jazz.These tracks are still songs, but they are still jazzy as in jazz.
The band is more an art-rock band on this album than a pure progressive rock band. That is worth noting.
The music is really good too. There is no real big track here and that is a bit disappointing. That aside, this album will enhance this band's good reputation.
3 points
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