OUTSIDE THE SCREEN

I discovered NEEDLEPOINT thanks to their last album, "Walking Up That Valley". I find it absolutely brilliant and wonder how I could miss this band since they exist since 2010, more than ten years. Unbelievable! This stuff is driving me crazy! Quite what I'm looking for these days: softness, musicality, virtuosity and originality. The instruments climb on top of each other and talk to each other to obtain a most complex subject ... while remaining incredibly musical. Here, no rage and the musicians are gods. For now, I am very excited to discover their discography. Decidedly, Norway gives us excellent progressive music! For a while I thought there were several guitarists until I took a closer look at this formation. No, there is only one guitarist. So he overdubbed himself to get this result? Not much. In fact, the keyboardist plays the Clavinet and Autoharp, which confuses the issue. "Outside The screen" is something to be listened to with headphones, eyes closed. Note that the drummer at the time (Thomas Strønen) has changed since then, but he was devilishly good. With a song like "If I Turned Left", NEEDLEPOINT invented the Laid Back Prog. (For those who don't know, the Laid Back is JJ Cale's own style.) Just for that, I'm giving them a well-deserved 5 star!