The fourth album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, marimba, bass, guitars, celeste, keyboards and tuba.
The band returned again with this forty minutes long album.
To my surprise, their debut album was a good album. It has some really progressive, cool stuff. The two following albums were not that interesting.
Sky 3 was met with pretty much indifference. So the band had to come up with something more interesting, more commercial viable.
The result was an album with their takes on some baroque and other short pieces classics from the classical music genre.
Neo-classical music is the right label here. Most of it sounds like muzak and I am not really able to shake of the feeling that the band was by now a new-age band. New-age as in the music genre from the 1980s, the decade which was largely bereft of any class and quality.
The music is OK and more than OK if stucked in an elevator with this album going in a loop. This is also more than decent shopping mall music. But as music in a living room or during a train/bus/plane/ferry ride ? No, the music is too cheesy for that. Hence....
1.5 points
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