Friday, October 4, 2024

Esquizoide - Cronicas (2024)

The debut album from this band from Argentina.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

Five guests added cello, violin, flute, saxophone and bass.

This is a new band from Argentina who has previously released two EPs in 2016 and 2019 before they released this album. This album is clocking in at fifty minutes.

The band has been labeled as a heavy prog band. I am not sure about that.... OK, they reminds me about a heavy, hard rocking version of Jethro Tull, the version of that band who won them the best hard rock act at the Grammy awards and pipped the likes of Metallica to that price (to everyobody's shock and horror). 

That said, there are a lot more art-rock in their music than heavy prog. There are some Porcupine Tree influences here though and some of the guitar solos has some Iron Maiden influences.

The flute and a lot of the music is also leaning towards Jethro Tull as I stated above. And we even get some tango and Latin - Rock here....

The vocals is good and the band does a good job on some songs who are slightly lacking in quality.

This is a more than acceptable debut album. The sound is good and I am awarding it a weak good rating. The addition of some vintage organ is adding that little extra to this album.

This is an album most prog fans will enjoy.

3 points



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