The debut album from this band from France.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, e-flute, flute and vocals.
This album has caused quite a sensation in the scene and it has got good marketing. The band is a three males and two females big band with female lead vocals.
The band has been praised a lot for their retro-prog.
The music on this fifty minutes long album has a lot of Yes, King Crimson and Genesis influences. So the retro-factor is pretty big. That though is not the full story, or anywhere near the full story, this album.
There is a lot of folk rock influences here and Scandinavian symphonic prog influences. The Flower Kings and Kaipa is good references. There is also some Magenta influences here.
The music is really complex and pretty epic throughout. This is also an album where the cover art-work, as seen over, tells most of the story. If you like this art-work, you will also like the music a lot.
The vocals and the many vocal harmonies is very good. Ditto for the flutes and the other instruments.
This great album has got a well deserved status as one of the best albums of the year. It is an album every progheads would and should get.
4 points
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