The fifth studio album from this band from USA.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, mellotron, synths, programming and vocals.
Two guests added violin and female vocals.
This band started out as a side project of Spock's Beard before they became a bit more serious about this project. I believe the band is now a full time project.
The music is still a mix of US symphonic prog and US neo-prog. There is a lot of Spock's Beard influences here. Ditto for Kansas and Yes influences.
The music on this fifty minutes long album is epic, bold and melodic. There are also enough technical complex stuff here to satisfy the progheads too. Us progheads, I have to add as I am one myself.
The mellotron and the synths generated organ sound is setting the tone for this album and it really gives it a good retro-feel too. The vocals is very good too.
The music is a mix of retro-prog and more contemporary prog.
There is no great songs here. Nevertheless, the music and this sound is very good and that makes this a very good album. This album is a new reminder why this band should be regarded as one of the better bands in today's prog rock scene.
3.5 points
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