The fourth album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a ten pieces big band with a lineup of percussion, bass, guitars, ukulele, strings, piano and whistle.
The band returned again three years after their last album. That album, Broadcasting From Home, was a bit of an underwhelming album.... see my review.
Signs Of Life is a fifty minutes long album in the chamber orchestra mould. With exception from some percussion, piano and whistle.. the music is performed by strings. That also means guitars and bass.
The music is very esoteric. It is also melodic and in the neo-classical mould. There is no rock, pop or progressive rock here. Not even some jazz....OK, there are some traces of gypsy jazz here. Django Reinhardt springs to mind on a couple of the tracks here.
The music is also pretty avant-garde at times.
The quality of the music here is decent enough. Their neo-classical music is a bit too esoteric and therefore not really more than decent enough. Hence...
2 points
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