The sixth album from this band from Great Britain.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
The band started out in the 1980s as a straight neo-prog band. Some cassettes was released. Their proper CD debut album was in 2011 with their Disobey album who caused quite a sensation.
The Glasgow band has built on their debut album since then with new albums.
All of them in the neo-prog genre.
Hence, I got quite a shock when I heard this album for the first time.
Cinematic prog was not the thing I expected. OK, the first impression was not entirely correct.
The music is a mix of cinematic prog, symphonic prog and neo-prog.
There is a lot of guitar solos here. The vocals is for the first time restrained down to a level the vocalist is really good at. Hence the very good vocals here.
There is a lot of ideas and themes here. A lot of cinematic stuff and I suspect this is a concept album.... of some sort.
The quality of this one hour worth of music is good to very good.
The band has again delivered the goods and proven that they are one of the more interesting progressive rock bands in and from Great Britain. Check out this album, but with an open mind.
3 points
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