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Mark’s Quick Review: Sunchild’s – Messages from Afar – The division of Illusion and Time.0 (0)
Sunchild is a project by Ukrainian composer, musician, multi-instrumentalist, producer Antony Kalugin. The album is a light romp of glorious gateway prog. With a large ensemble to give this album its ultimate sound. The guitar sounds a bit Satriani like without so many notes. One of my favorite songs is a 20 minute epic track which, thanks to vocals and the music sounds a bit like a Roger Waters track and the back up vocals are straight out of Dark Side of the Moon's us and them. This album is one consistently good song after another. Maybe...
Mark’s Quick Review: Curious Grace & Black Rabbit’s – #WorldOnFire0 (0)
A Chicago Sextet Curious Grace & Black Rabbit releases their debut album #WorldOnFire. They play a lot of venues that I frequent and I will go see them live sometime, but I can't recommend this album. I just couldn't find any melodies to hold on to. To me passages sounded dissonant when I don't think they were meant to be. Ill look forward to their next album and hope I feel better about them second time around. ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS: Request Gaelic Story Here Click above to purchase at Amazon US or Amazon UK and we'll get a little referral bonus...
Mark’s Quick Review: Glass Hammer’s – Chronomonaut0 (0)
Glass Hammer’s Chronomonaut the continuation of Chronometree story from 2001 out does its predecessor. The songs are well crafted and diverse. This album is a welcome edition to the Glass Hammer cannon. Matthew Parmenter's guest appearance on the Past is the Past is one of the ways this album stays fresh and diverse. Chris Herin (Discipline, Tiles) is also on the album, which came about thanks to the bands both performing and 2 Days Prog + 1 according to Matthew. Not the first time two discipline members have been on an album the first was...
Mark’s Quick Review: Isla Fortune’s – Verity0 (0)
This is a straight up rock album with some nice atmospheric additions long passages and interesting changes. The three piece band from Cyprus who puts out a hard hitting sound. I would suspect is a band you need to see live. Their energy is undeniable even in the studio. There is something about it keeping me from really liking this album. Maybe the vocals are to high in the mix. I can't see to put my finger on why but it sounds like all the instruments are on one track and the vocals were recorded somewhere else. I really find my self...
Mark’s Quick Review: Grackle’s – The Quiet Noise0 (0)
Full disclosure I have been a fan of Steve Katsikas work for 15 years thanks to his work with Little Atlas. and Strattman and I was lucky enough to hear this band live in Chicago. I can say with some certainty that if you are a fan of neo prog you will like this album. The cover of Steven Wilson's Please Come Home is my favorite track which I guess tells me that their work isn't quite up to the standards of Steven Wilson. That being said that cover was so good that I decided to relisten to the original version of that song. The album has many...
Mark’s Quick Review: Semantic Saturation’s – Paradigms0 (0)
This is the follow up to their debut in 2013, Solipsistic which I particularly liked. This album has a few guests on it most notably keyboard player Derek Sherinian, but Alex and Houry's additions should not be over looked. The album is constantly entertaining with wonderful interludes of drama. This album is in the sub category of Prog Metal but I find it more melodic than metal. The song writing is more diverse than some guitar led instrumental music and I appreciate that in this album. This is a particularly good album for those of you...