Monday, June 16, 2025

Soft Ffog - Focus (2025)

 

The second album from this band from Norway.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and keyboards.

This is the followup album to their self-titled 2022 debut album. I reviewed this album three years ago, in July 2022 for # 3 of this blog. I gave it one of my few great album ratings. It was indeed one of 2022s best albums.

It is with sadness I have just learnt that their drummer Axel Skalstad passed away last week. He was also the drummer in Krokofant and a great drummer. Rest In Peace, Axel.

Their debut album was a fusion/jazz attack with high energy fusion. A very refreshing album that impressed a lot of people.

The tempo has been taken down a notch on this forty minutes long album, the follow up album. Their take on fusion is more mellow this time around. 

All four band members does a good job on some very good stuff. The music is not as immediate and fresh as on their debut album. The quality has dropped a notch too. Nevertheless, this band has on this album established themselves as one of the best new fusion bands from Scandinavia, dare I say Europe too. 

This is an album well worth checking out.

3.5 points

 

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