The debut album from this band from Belgium.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, dobro, piano, synths and vocals.
This band has released five albums. The last one, Spirals In The Wider Space, was released some months ago and reviewed, given a good review in this blog earlier this year.
On the back of reviewing that album, I discovered that I had yet to review their first two albums. Albums released twenty or so years ago. Review of their second album will follow before the end of the year.
Mindgames started out as a neo-prog band and never really changed course throughout these five albums. The music is unashamed neo-prog in both the Dutch and the British 1980s tradition.
The Pendragon, but also the Genesis and Marillion influences comes thick and fast here. The music is a bit pop-orientated at times.
The vocals are a bit thin but still good on this sixty-seven minutes long album. The quality of the music is surprisingly good at times. There are a lot of decent stuff here too.
This is an acceptable debut album and one to check out if neo-prog is your kind of reindeer.
2.5 points
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