The fourth album from this band from Norway.
The band is a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, flutes, saxophones and vocals.
A guest added acoustic guitar on one song.
I believed that this band had split up as the main man is so involved with promoting gigs. Gigs with many famous prog rock bands from agroad and Norway. Great gigs.
The band has returned again after a six years long break. The band album debuted back in 2010 and is not the most productive band around. But who cares as long as their albums is very good. That goes for their first three albums.
Mindscapes follows in the same direction as those three albums.
Take Scandinavian symphonic prog and add some heavy-prog too. Kaipa and Høst springs to mind throughout this album.
The vocals is very good throughout. Ditto for the flutes.
The twenty-two minutes long Fear occupies more than half of this album and it is a very good, epic and complex piece of symphonic prog. The three other songs are more in the vein of heavy prog and more catchy.
The music is always interesting and engaging.
This is indeed a very good album. I wish this band welcome back and I hope we will get some more albums from them in the upcoming years.
3.5 points
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