The third album from this band from USA.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, mandolin, keyboards and vocals.
Several guests added drums, bass, guitars, mandolin, keyboards, harmonium and narrations.
Their second album, the 1999 album On A Darkling Plain, was a really good symphonic neo-prog album and a big improvement on their 1997 debult album Wildling.
I was therefore given some hopes.
The band returned with this one hour long album. The music is a mix of art-rock and straight forward mainstream rock.
The vocals is good. The sound is big and pretty bold. It is also OK.
The songs are not really up to a good level and the only memorable thing about this album is the good vocals. The songs are pretty forgetable. The musicianship is good though and the band does their best on these sub-standard songs.
This is decent album but nothing more than that.
2 points
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