Saturday, November 2, 2024

Mangrove - Touch Wood (2004)

The debut album from this band from The Netherlands.

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

Two months ago, I reviewed their new album, the 2024 album Bridge To Fiction, and promised myself to review their first three albums too. This is what I will do this month.... Starting with their debut album, this album.

The music on this album is a mix of symphonic prog and neo-prog.

References are both Pendragon and mid-era Genesis.

The tempo is mid-paced. The music is leaning more towards neo-prog than symphonic prog as the sound is a bit thin and poppy. 

The music is very melodic but not so rich on details. The vocals is OK'ish. Ditto for the sound.

The quality of the music on this sixty-seven minutes long music is somewhere between decent and good. This is a more than acceptable debut album but nothing more than that.

2.5 points



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