Monday, August 19, 2024

Phoenix Again - Vision (2022)

The fifth album from this band from Italy.

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

Around ten guests added glockenspiel, woodwinds and chorus.

I reviewed their second album for # 1 of this blog back in October 2014 and their fourth album for # 2 of this blog back in April 2019. I should really get hold of their debut album and their third album too. If successful, I will review them later this year.

The music here is instrumental prog. There are some vocals but they are used as sound effects and instruments as they are non-words vocals.

The music is both dynamic and muscular throughout this album. In progressive rock is pretty cinematic with some strong fusion influences and some progressive metal influences.

The music is pretty good with some tasty keyboards who sporadic, too sporadic, adds some classic RPI keyboards.

Too much of this one hour long album is just pedestrian and not so engaging. The result is therefore a decent to good album.

2.5 points




 

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