Friday, February 21, 2025

Esthesis - The Awakening (2020)

 

The debut album from this band from France.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, lap steel guitars, keyboards and vocals.

This band from France has so far released two albums. Both of them are up for reviews here this month. 

I am not sure if the band is still around. I hope they are.

The music on this sixty-five minutes long album is neo-prog.

Their take on neo-prog is pretty melancholic. The neo-prog here is therefore leaning more towards the Polish and German take on this genre than the British take on this genre. 

There are also some good art-rock influences here and the latter days Marillion and Pink Floyd springs to mind.

The vocals are very good and the guitars are really smoking good and well during the guitar solos. The songs are on average around ten minutes long with the longest one clocking in at sixteen minutes.

Some of the songs are slightly uneventful. Nevertheless, this is a good album indeed and one fans of neo-prog and melodic prog should check out.

3 points

 

 

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