The second album from this band from USA.
The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards, saxophone, oboe, flute and vocals.
Three guests added bells, bass and keyboards.
I reviewed their 2017 debut album Pilgrim Of The Absolute for # 2 of this blog back in March 2018. That album was a good, promising album with music somewhere between Neal Morse, Porcupine Tree and Rush.
The follow up album The Pelican is just over fifty minutes long.
The music is following in the same vein as their debut album. Some of the music is sunny and some are rather melancholic. Some of the music is rather pastoral too and that is very much typical for the nineteen minutes long opus Working Title.
Genre wise, this album is a blend of heavy prog and art-rock. Add in some US symphonic prog too and you get the picture.
The vocals are good and the band does a good job too. The woodwinds here are adding a lot of colours to the music too.
The result is a very good album from this very underrated band. Hopefully, it will not take them eight years to release a new album as this is a talented band.
3.5 points
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