The 15th album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a seven piece big band with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, flutes and vocals.
A guest added uillean pipes on the first couple of tracks.
This band is veterans and to a large degree a genre-defining band. They were among the inventors of keltic progressive folk rock. They were and probably still is the biggest band in that scene.
Heather Findlay was the vocalist back then. She departed and went for a pretty successful solo-career. Olivia Sparnenn took over her role a decade ago or so. The lead vocals duties is shared between her and Bryan Josh, the leading member of this band.
Seawater is a seventy-seven minutes long album. The title track alone is twenty minutes long.
Mostly Autumn is true to their own formula on this album. The keltic folk rock has more or less disappeared although there are frequent hints about their past as a keltic folk rock band throughout this album.
Their music is art-rock here as it has been on their last half a dozen of albums. The vocals are dramatic and slightly operatic. I include both the very good male and female vocals here. There are some symphonic prog references in their music too.
The quality of their songs is not up to their normal high standards. This is still a good album and one enjoyable one too. It is a bit of a hint about how great this band was during their best days.
3 points
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