Friday, January 20, 2023

Manticore - Elements (2022)

The third album from this band from Sweden.

The band is a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

A female vocalist also adds her voice. 

I reviewed their second album, the 2018 album Next Step back in August 2018 for # 2 of this series of blogs.

That album was influenced by everyone from Yes, The Moody Blues, ELP and The Beatles. It is also a good album.

The Yes and ELP influences has gone altogether on Elements, the follow up album. Ditto for The Beatles too.

Elements sounds like a more pop influenced version of Kaipa. Add in a lot of The Moody Blues and Barclay James Harvest too and you get them.

The music is very melodic indeed.

The quality is not particular impressive. This is a barely good album, but it still deserves to be rated as a good album. The cover art-work is also a good one.

3 points



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