The second album from this band from The Netherlands.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
After I had reviewed their 2008 debut album St Lo back in July 2011 for ProgArchives, and I was not impressed at all by that album, I had forgotten all about them until I got and reviewed last year's Diurnal album (see review somewhere else in this blog).
That is when I found out that I had some of their albums laying around in my office. Hence, I will review these three albums in the coming weeks.
The music is still, as on their debut album, neo-prog.
That is.... Melancholic and soulful neo-prog with some soaring guitar solos. Their take on neo-prog is not as calculated and symphonic as the British take on this genre... a genre they invented, bands like Marillion and Pendragon.
There are still some Marillion influences and similarities here.
The quality of the music on this three quarters of an hour long album is good and at times very good. The final ten minutes is where the album tails of and is not as good as the first half an hour.
This is still a very good album and one to check out if neo-prog floats your boat.
3.5 points
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