The 14th album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet on this album with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, violin, keyboards and vocals.
The band had taken a five years long break after the previous album Feel The Misery. This due to the vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe having to deal with his cancer sick daughter. Thankfully, she survived. The band also changed the drummer and the guitarist during this period and recorded this album as a quintet.
There are some really personal, haunting lyrics on this album dealing with cancer and parent's very worst fear of losing a child to this disease. Lyrics that enhances this album.
The music is also much more polished on this album than on previous albums. That goes for the vocals too as there are only some sporadic harsh vocals here. The vocals is plainly not fitting this band.
The darkness in their sound is therefore in short supply. Their music works best when there is balance between light and darkness.
The sound and music is therefore far too polished to make this a classic My Dying Bride album or even an album you want to include among their better albums.
The result is an album somewhere between decent and good. I am not won over.
2.5 points
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