COMA ROSSI

There was a lot of hype back in 2018 when it was released and the cover of the album also drawed my attention and I decided to give it a chance. I wasn't too excited about it and selved it but some years later I thought it was time to revisit it. Coma Rossi hail from India and the main influences, to my ears, on this album are Porcupine Tree and Riverside, sometimes way too blatant. But nevermind this; after all, it's quite hard to create something really unique nowadays and secondly I have heard many albums that sound quite similar to other bands, but I enjoy nonetheless. So, the music is mostly ambient, with a cinematic edge, too, although hard parts on the guitars are dotted here and there. The first two songs, though nothing superb, kept my interest, but after that I'm sorry to say that the whatever 'novelty' wears off and the music sounds very boring to my ears. The keyboards provide nothing but pads, the guitars are one-dimentional, playing mostly atmospheric passages and suddenly throwing in some power chords, the development of the songs is dragging and the "mesmerising" way the singer sings becomes tiresome after a while. The fact that they hail from India had raised my hopes that I would hear something more exotic but no, it is too typical and derivative. One of the few times that I didn't make it to listen to the entire album.

Fans of Porcupine Tree and Riverside and also take a liking at ambient music might check it out.