The third album from this band from Finland.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, mellotron, flute and vocals.
A guest added keyboards.
The band returned again after a fifteen years long break.
This album still sounds like a natural progression from their 2009 album Kahden Kuun Sirpit.
The music here is still a crossover between Scandinavian folk rock and Italian symphonic prog (RPI). This despite of the vocals/lyrics being in Finnish, the local language in Finland. But the music still has these strong RPI influences.
The music is still based on pastoral Scandinavian folk music and indeed..... the rich Scandinavian psalms tradition. Psalms you can hear in every church in the Polar Region, sung by fewer and fewer believers. That tradition can be found on this album, at least.
The music is in short pastoral. There are some really good songs and pieces of music here, indeed.
Viima has made a triumphant return and I hope they will soon follow up this album. I do not want any more long breaks between their albums.
3 points
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