The debut album from this band from Italy.
The band is a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
This is another new band from Italy.
The band released a self-titled EP back in 2014. An EP that did not give them any attention. After putting the band on ice, and the vocalist doing some Raven Sad albums, the band returned to record some new songs and to incorporate some of the songs from the EP into this, their debut album.
The music here can best described as a mix of art-rock and neo-prog. Add some RPI and psych rock influences too and you get the drift.
Gabriele Marconcini's English vocals is very good and in the vein of Fish from Marillion. Hence also in the vein of Peter Gabriel and the vocalist in The Watch. The vocals sounds pretty much like Geoff Tate from Queensryche on the couple of first songs here. The music here has some similarities with their album Operation Mindcrime, an album who again also deserve some attention.
The music is mid-tempo and muscular throughout these seventy minutes. Seventy minutes which I guess covers many years of songs, now finally released.
The guitars are powerful here and the keyboards sometimes sounds like a strings orchestra. There is also some organ and piano from the keyboards. The rhythm section cannot be faulted at all.
The melodies range between great and good here. There is a lot of very interesting details here.
The result is a very good album which should be of great interest to all neo-prog and RPI fans. Even psych rock fans should find something to like here.
Italy has again produced a great band and a very good album. It is always nice to get surprises like this album.
3.5 points
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