The fifth album from this band from Sweden.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, mandolin, taurus, organ, synths and vocals.
A guest added some extra vocals.
This band album debuted back in 1988 and released their twelfth album two years ago. I got a handful of these albums up for review and started last month with their fourth album, Gaze from 1996. An album that I did not find impressive.
The music on Visionary Fools is a mix of AOR, hard rock, pomp rock, art-rock and neo-prog.
The music is pretty bold and epic. It is clear that the band is massive influenced by neo-prog on this album. A lot of the structures in neo-prog.
Some of this album is really good. And then we get these vocals who sounds strained to breaking point far too many times during these fifty minutes. Some of the music is also barely album fillers.
The result is fifty minutes of music somewhere between decent and good. It is an improvement though on Gaze. I hope the next album is even better than this one.
2.5 points
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