The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a one-man-band on this album with Gerard Freeman doing the bass, guitars, keyboards, programming and vocals.
A trio of guests added drums, guitars and backing vocals.
I reviewed their 2023 debut album for # 3 of this blog back in December 2023 and gave it a very good rating. Hence, I was looking forward to this album.
Olympus Mons is a one hour long album. The music is symphonic prog with some very big Gabriel era Genesis and Fish era Marillion influences.
The sound is more in the vein of neo-prog than symphonic prog.
The vocals is good and instruments are competent played. The music is pretty melodic and elegant.
The music is good though until it comes to the final three tracks which is partly a Supper's Ready rip-off with some of the best pieces of that Genesis suite.
On balance, this is still a good album although it falls a bit short of my expectations as the debut album was such a very good album.
3 points
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