The fourth album from this band from The Netherlands.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano, synths, flute and vocals.
The band returned after a three years long break.
The band became a lot more melodic on their previous album Luctor Et Emergo. This after their first two heavy prog albums.
On this album, the one hour long Latitude, the band has also ditched their Porcupine Tree influences and gone more for an art-rock album.
There are some Roxy Music and some Marillion influences here. Latitude feels like a blend of those two art-rock strands.
The big difference is Lesoir's great female vocals. Those sets the band a bit apart from the majority of the rest of the scene.
Some of the music is pretty theatrical and some is more straight forward melodic. There are still some sporadic heavy guitars here.
That makes this another good album from this band and one to check out. On balance, this is their best album of their first four albums.
3 points
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