The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was an eight piece big band with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano, keyboards, woodwinds, programming and vocals.
A handful of guests added viola, violin and vocals.
This band released three albums before the mainman Kavus Torabi joined Guapo and Gong. Knifeworld was therefore put on ice. If that is a permanent closure of this band or just a long break, I do not know.
I got their first two albums and posted my review of their 2009 debut album Buried Alone earlier this month in this blog. It is/was a fairly good album.
The Unravelling is the three quarters of an hour long follow up album and it is a blend of a lot of genres. Kavus has always mixed and mashed genres together and this album is an example of such an approach.
The base camp here is art-rock. The album then ventures out on climbs up the steep slopes on genres like Canterbury scene and eclectic prog.
The vocals are both female and male. There is a lot of duets here too. There is also a lot of woodwinds too here.
The music is mid-paced to pastoral slow. There is no dissonant pieces here and not hard pieces of music.
The music is fairly good but nothing more than that. I am yet to be won over by this band.
2.5 points
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