The band was a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, programming and vocals.
The fact that Ange has released an album this year is one of the nicest surprises of the year. When we also get both the Christian and Tristan Decamps on this album.... I feel joyous.
Ange is far too often overlooked. But they are still one of the best ever symphonic prog bands ever to have graced this planet.
Not all their albums has been good though and they have had a bleak period with some rather bad pop/rock albums. So which Ange turned up on this album ?
This fifty minutes long album sees the band partly returning to their roots... the symphonic prog era.
Partly because there are also some art-rock here. There is none of this pop/rock that marred their good reputation. This album is a bona fide art-rock and symphonic progressive rock album.
The sound is also modern and dynamic. The vocals from the Decamps family is very good. They are off course in French, a language who really suits the symphonic prog genre.
The mid-tempo and pretty complex songs here are really good and this album is a really positive surprise. I am pretty impressed.
3 points
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