Sunday, November 17, 2024

Vesilinja - Myrskyn Keskellä (2022)

The second album from this band from Finland.

The band was a sextet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, piano, organ, synths, flute, clarinet, saxophones and vocals.

This is the follow up album to their self-titled 2021 debut album. A good debut album, indeed.

This band has taken on board the Finnish prog rock and jazz/fusion sounds and bands from the 1970s and made their own version of this inheritance. Hence the good debut album. 

The band has moved slightly towards progressive rock and folk rock on this album. Jethro Tull, Finnforest and Wigwam is good references. But there are still a lot of references to Tasavallan Presidentti too here. Both through the saxophones and the guitars.

The Finnish male vocals is good and the guitars is very good. The saxophones is adding a lot of textures and colours to the music.

There is a lot of good details on this forty minutes long album. It has a nice, warm Scandinavian sound. 

It is indeed both a well crafted album and a good album. 

This is a band that has taken up the baton from classic bands from Finland and is running with it. The result is this good album.

3 points

 

 

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