The debut album from this band from Finland.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, autoharp, violin, keyboards and vocals.
Two guests added tambourine and narrations.
This is a new band from Finland who has so far released two albums. Both albums to be reviewed here in this blog before the end of the month....
... Starting with this review of their debut album.
Sunhillow is the band started by three of the members of Pax Romana when that band broke up. That band released three good neo-prog albums between 2005 and 2012.
The neo-prog has been cast aside by this band and replaced by something quite different again. Take a lot if folk-rock, add in some old Finnish prog in the vein of Wigwam and then a lot of both Pink Floyd and David Gilmour solo albums.
The main music on this thirty-seven minutes long album is Scandinavian folk rock and Finnish folk music. There is a lot of organs, guitars and in particular violins here. The vocals is very good indeed.
Not here is good. But the sound is this album's saviour. The same goes for this music's retro feel too. Most of the songs are good though and this makes this a good debut album.
This band is another star in the Finnish prog rock scene. A growing scene and one to really keep an eye on.
3 points
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