Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Circe Link & Christian Nesmith - Arcana (2024)

The second album from this duo from USA.

Circe Link is doing the vocals here and Christian Nesmith is providing the bass, guitars, keyboards and synths.

The duo had help from a drummer throughout the album. An other guest did keyboards solos on one track.

Ms. Circe Link has from her base in Los Angeles, where also Chistian Nesmith is based, released numerous albums through Bandcamp. They first cooperated on their 2021 album Cosmologica. That is an album I will get hold of pretty quickly and then review it around the end of the year.

The music on this album is a mix of dream pop, psych-rock and symphonic prog. 

The album is one hour long and it has got five tracks. The closing track is fifteen minutes long while the four other tracks is around ten minutes long each.

It is fair to say that this duo has embraced the flowers of California. There is a lot of flower power here and the music is very colourful. There is also a lot of of Genesis and Yes references here... symphonic prog in other words. Epic and bold symphonic prog.

On the top of this, we get Circe Link's very flowery and dreamy vocals. These vocals are superb and is adding tonnes of quality here.

A couple of better songs and we would have had the best album of the year candidate here. Nevertheless, this is a great album.

4 points

 

 


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