Sunday, October 19, 2025

Pareidolon - The Unattainable Shore (2025)

 

The second album from this band from Canada.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano, organs, synths and vocals.

Some guests added drums, guitars, organ, synths, flute, narrations and vocals.

I had the joy of reviewing their 2017 debut album Aporia back in August 2017 in # 2 of this blog. It is a good album, indeed.

It has taken them eight years to come up with this sixty-six minutes long follow up album. 

The band has embraced the whole progressive rock and psych rock genre and have distilled those genres into their own brew.

You find influences from all the great bands here. Pink Floyd, Genesis, Jefferson Airplane, Yes, King Crimson, Rush... they are all big inspirations for this album.

The music is epic and monumental. It is also driven by some understated, but still good female vocals. The music is not particularly muscular. It is more like psych rock in this respect.

The music is both melodic and pretty complex. It is also pretty flowery and pretty much flower power inspired.

The result is a good name-your-price Bandcamp album and therefore almost an obligatory download. This is one of the more welcome come backs of the year.

3 points  

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