Thursday, December 14, 2023

ICU - Now And Here (1995)

The second album from this band from Germany.

The band was a sextet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute, male and female vocals. 

This is their second of in total three albums. 

Their debut album contained some pretty good neo-prog in the vein of Pallas and Pendragon. The band is listed as a symphonic prog band in ProgArchives and that got my attention. My hope was that at least their second album would be a symphonic prog album.

The band continued on from their debut album with more of the same. Neo-prog in the vein of Pendragon and Pallas. There is some symphonic prog here and that is the development between these two albums.

The female and male vocals is not particular impressive. The flute is sporadic and the sound is the 1990s neo-prog sound. Too thin and not muscular enough, in other words.

The music is again not that bad. The quality is somewhere between decent and good. It is an OK album..

2.5 points



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