The debut album from this one-man-band from Northern Ireland.
This is Chris from the indie band One Stop Away's solo project and he did the guitars, bass, keyboards, drum programming and the vocals here.
I found this album by trawling through some webpages. As I got fond memories from my time in Northern Ireland and is now living just across the water from this beautiful province, I picked up this album for a review.
This is a concept album about Viking invasions of Northern Ireland and/or the British Isles.
The music is somewhere between the singer/songwriter tradition, folk rock, neo-prog and psych rock.
Jethro Tull is not a bad comparison here.There is also some pretty good Pink Floyd influences here.
The music is vocals driven. The vocals is a bit dark but also very good. The story on this concept album is well told through the vocals. The guitars are good and the organ produces some very good melody lines at times.
The music has some strange twists and turns which adds a lot of quality to this forty minutes long Bandcamp album.
There are some good melodies and pieces of music here. So much that I regard Chris as a talented storyteller and musician. We want more of the same, in other words.
This is indeed a good debut album and one to check out if mellow prog rock is your thing.
3 points
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