Thursday, January 16, 2025

Isbjörg - Irisdescent (2019)

The debut album from this band from Denmark.

The band was a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, piano and vocals.

This band released their second album last year and I got both their albums for review. The review of their second album will be posted later this month.

This is an unrepentant neo-prog band. 

This is neo-prog with some art-rock and heavy prog elements. Add in some psych rock too.

Take a mix of Genesis, Rush, Porcupine Tree, Gentle Giant and Yes. Then you get this album.

The band uses piano where others would have used keyboards. That is a major difference between this band and other neo-prog bands.

The music on this album fifty minutes long album is pretty epic, lively, hard and melodic. It also got some interesting details. 

The vocals is very good throughout and there is a lot of very good piece of music on these nine tracks. None of them are long but this album should still be regarded as one unit instead of nine songs.

Their music also sounds very fresh and this album is indeed very refreshing. So much that this indeed a very good album indeed. This is a highly talented band with a great future ahead of them..... I hope.

3.5 points




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