THIRD WARNING

ARCHANGEL almost unknown to me until I knew the keyboardist of THE WATCH was behind it: There I will see, listen since I read heavy prog, it kicks me: Well let's be clear, his last baby is not heavy but of course symphonic neo prog, but not an ersatz again and again, a good album, very sensitive and addicting.

From the start I was stunned, it's fresh, cheerful, it's energetic and well-worked to put me even more on the sofa; I find there airs to ALAN PARSONS PROJECT. In 'The Last Days of Beauty', title chained, I note this high-quality symphonism which makes you leave, dream. With 'Thetis' we land on a piece where the instruments are well highlighted; it's soaring, majestic, Stefano Mancarella's guitar solo is one of the most beautiful heard recently. On 'The End of the World' we mainly have the place of neo keyboards. An immense title 'Storm over St. Andrew's Curchyard' also linked together gives all the combined value of the neo-symphonic, bombastic without being overdone. The rise is divine, the neo sound far from the RPI, we have keyboards in the 2nd part on moving biniou, the nice surprise. 'Circle of Life' falls into the Genesis aura, a soft, intimate, romantic and melancholy title but with its own stamp. As for 'When the Eagle Hung His Head', an epic long sequel to the intro reminding me of the best hours of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST, this is the moment that confirms that you are not on a lambda record: everything is there for make you pass dreamlike 12 ', bathed between the expressive voice and its keyboard, in solo piano mode for a while, in symphonic mode at the end; it stretches a little but it allows to take a little resistance to swallow this grandiloquent title.

ARCHANGEL released an album that fits directly into my top bis, much better than the last CORVAGLIA yet already very nice to read. Here there is a more palpable, more symphonic, progressive musical emotion, the little extra that makes you stop breathing, that makes you on the lookout, that makes you think about this damn dead prog that still lives beautifully with albums by this tempering; a very good one!