Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Nine Stones Close - One Eye On The Sunrise (2012)

 

The third album from this band from The Netherlands.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, synths, samples and vocals.

Three guests added cello, guitars and backing vocals.

This is the follow up album to the very good 2010 album Traces.

The band started out as a neo-prog band. Their were hugely influenced by Marillion in the start and on parts of Traces too. Their take on neo-prog is though more in the Dutch, German and Polish tradition.

This too goes for this one hour long album.

The music is dark and melancholic neo-prog. There are some art-rock influences here too but most of this is darkened neo-prog.

The vocals is good and the blend of guitars and keyboards are good.

The overall quality is good too. This album is not as good as Traces but it is still an album neo-prog fans should have in their collection.

3 points

 

 

 

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