The 14th album from this band from Sweden.
The band/project was a nine piece big with a lineup of drums, marimba, percussion, bass, guitars, viola, violin, keyboards, woodwinds and vocals.
This album is a cooperation between this band and the vocalist Jinian Wilde. This after two cooperations with Peter Hammill on the previous two albums.
Isildurs Bane has done a lot of cooperations with other artists and it is therefore a bit difficult to rate their career. It is an interesting and a boundaries bending band, that is for sure. I like what they are doing.
Jinian Wilde, who comes from England, is the vocalist in David Cross band and has also been the vocalist in some other project. He is indeed a very good vocalist and that is proven on this album.
The music on this album is a mix of art-rock and more elegant musicals/concept rock. There is also some bits of Pink Floyd in their music and some symphonic prog.
The sound is big and bold. Nothing is spared in a sound full of various instruments.
The quality is somewhere between decent and good. There is not enough good music here to really label this as a good album. What is missing is the art of good song writing, in short.
This album is not this band's finest hour.
2.5 points
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