The debut album from this band from Italy.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and keyboards.
A dozen guests added vibraphone, violin, saxophone, vocals and choir.
This new band includes members of SKE, Not A Good Sign and Yugen.
It is disputed if this is their debut album or the second album. A half an hour long EP named Campana Di Legno was released last year. That EP is indeed included in this album and twenty minutes of additional songs has been added to make the album I am here reviewing. Confusing ? Yes, indeed.
The music on this fifty minutes long album is a blend of RPI, avant-garde prog and post-metal. If pressed, I would still label this as RPI taken into account that Picchio Dal Pozzo and Area is regarded as RPI bands. That again is nitpicking and pedantic.
The music is very complex. It has a lot of metal and indeed extreme metal stuff too. This in addition to some avant-garde prog and...wait for it.... melodic RPI like pieces.
This is not easy listening, the music here.
The quality is good and this is an engaging and pretty fascinating album well worth checking out. I sincerely hope we will hear a lot more from this band in the future.
3 points
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