LIFE IN THE WIRES

Frost*

Neo-Prog

4.33 | 78 ratings

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Windrunner

I love you, Jem Godfrey, I really do.

.. but this is not quite the masterpiece you (and several others here) think. It really recycles a lot of Frost* ideas from years past. What is fresh is just very noisy -- too much compression in the mix.

I think "Life in the Wires, Pt. 1" is perhaps the most impressive. It's a very self-contained, clever piece, and it seems to give me goosebumps every time the noise recedes and the very shimmery lead riffs pop up.

As many pointed, this is probably Craig Blundell's best work with Frost* (since he was not on any recording until 2009ish). If you like drumming, you'll dig this. Thank goodness he was available, as the variation in drumming really kept me from digging Day and Age.

It sounds _a lot_ like Experiments in Mass Appeal, otherwise. Particularly Moral and Consequence. Propergander has a lot of the noisy bits of Falling Satellites era stuff.

A lot to like here, and several wonderful moments, but would've been better as a single disc.

Windrunner | 4/5 | 2024-10-20

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