The debut album from this band from USA.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, saxophone, recorder and vocals.
The band had help from some guests who provided mandolin, guitars, narration and backing vocals.
This band was formed by keyboardist and saxophone player Brent Bristow. Jake Livgren from Kerry Livgren Band and Proto-Kaw joined and that snowballed the duo into a quintet and then some guests added their instruments to this album. This was meant to be a studio-project, but they had a change of heart and has gone on the road as a band, promoting this album.
The album was sold to me as a symphonic prog album. In that case, an US symphonic prog album. The Kansas and Proto-Kaw references comes thick and fast.
There are also some neo-prog, US neo-prog and art-rock here.
This album clocks in at sixty minutes. The first ten minutes sounds like a teenybopper album and those minutes are pretty bad. The album gradually improves and becomes pretty good at the end.
I am not entirely won over by this album and will rate it somewhere between decent and good. I hope this album is not a one-off album from a band who comes and then get disbanded. I hope they are here to stay.
2.5 points
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