CONTAGION

When I buy an album of one of my favourite bands I tend to look at the length of the songs hoping for at least one, hopefully even more epics, they are usually my favourites. When I saw the playing times of the songs of Contagion I got disappointed. I'm a fan of Arena from the beginning, really loved Solomon, Sirens, Moviedrome but of course also other songs. I still bought this album, wanted to give it a real chance and I'm glad I did.

This proved to be an album that kept growing on me, the songs got better and better after each listening. It's an accessible album but is still prog (fortunately), typical neoprog actually. This album has slowly but surely grown to a true 4 star case, well deserved. Best songs are Witch hunt, Painted man, Riding the tide and Cutting the cards. Well done Arena !