The second album from this band from Italy.
The band is a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
Two guests added female vocals and saxophones on a couple of tracks.
Their 2018 debut album Diary did not impress me at all. Poppy progressive rock with substandard songs. But I am always interested in what Italian bands brings to the table. Hence this review...
The music has changed to a mix of neo-prog, art rock and some symphonic prog too. There is though some pretty heavy Dream Theater influences here too. So we have to add progressive metal to the mix too despite of the music on this album not being very heavy.
Mid tempo with some forays into more pastoral prog is what we get here.
The music is very varied on this over seventy minutes long album. The pastoral bits with both female and male vocals are mostly at the end of the album, after fifty minutes. This part of the album is pretty much different from the first part of the album. The second part of the album is also by far the best part of the album. That part of the album even has some subtle RPI influences.
The result is an acceptable, good album. It has some flaws but it is a big step in the right direction, compared with the debut album.
Check it out.
3 points
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