Saturday, April 26, 2025

New Ghost - A Dagger In Every Tide (2024)

 

The second album from this band from Great Britain.

The band was a sextet on this album with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.

Two guests added guitars and programming.

Their 2019 debut album New Ghost Orchestra was a pretty good debut album. The music somewhere between electronica and art-rock. Oceanside was a reference for that album.

Six years later and Oceanside is still an influence on this band and this fifty minutes long album.

The music is in short a blend of art-rock, post-rock and electronica. It is the post-millenium's take on progressive rock. It is a break with the 1970s Genesis influenced progressive rock... but still it is progressive rock as far as I am concerned.

The music is mid-tempo with some good guitars. Some of the guitars are dissonant in the vein of post-rock. There is some ebbs and flows here too. The music is still melodic with some good female and male vocals.

The overall quality is good. I hope we will hear more from this band in the future as their first two albums showcases a band with some pretty substantial promise.

3 points

 

 

 

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