TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

The debut of "The Alan Parsons Project", my favourite band (for those who care to know), apart from being an excellent and glorious tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, a great and personally admired writer linked to tales of near-death, bereavement, and loss-related events (but this is not a review of Poe's career, so I'll stop), has a sound of orchestral and symphonic blending that is worthy of recognition and admiration.

The atmosphere that traps you in a huge and glorious circuit of the melodies and the very marked choruses that the songs possess, lead you to a state of "goosebumps" in a great part of the tracklist.

I'm not surprised by the "Floyd" sound of this album, being that Alan Parsons has collaborated with the aforementioned band as sound engineer (a clearer example couldn't be any other than "The Dark Side of the Moon").

"The Fall of the House of Usher", by far the highlight of the album. An orchestral-space suite full of feelings and deep changes that move you and make you feel observed. Few songs achieve such a sublime ambience as this one.

A great foot forward for this project. *Hats off to him

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