Monday, July 15, 2024

Arcansiel - Still Searching (1990)

The second album from this band from Italy.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute, saxophone and vocals.

This band released three albums in the 1990s before they resurfaced again this year with a new album. I will review the new album later this month.

Still Searching consist of the twenty minutes long title track, an opus, a ten minutes long opus and two shorter songs. 

The music is very much in the early Marillion, hence Genesis vein.

There is a lot of saxophones in their take on neo-prog and that sets the band apart from most other neo-prog bands. The sound is also rather thin and not as muscular as I personally would have preferred.

The title track is very good at times. OK, a bit Marillion copycat but still a very good opus. The remaining songs are decent to good.

The result is barely a good album. Nevertheless, it is a good album and one to check out if early Marillion floats your boat.

3 points




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