SADAKO E LE MILLE GRU DI CARTA

This 2020 album by Logos is certainly compelling, presenting a style of Italian prog informed by the greats of that scene but with a big injection of other influences. The more aggressive moments of IQ come to mind at points, and the keyboard and synths of Luca Zerman also play a prominent role.

As with their preceding album, I find that Luca's vocals don't do much for me; I wouldn't call him a bad vocalist, but I wouldn't call him a great vocalist either; his performance is just kind of there, present for the sake of including vocals on a track but not really adding an enormous amount from a musical perspective. This could have been an instrumental and I suspect nobody would have been especially put off - if you're this into prog-for-prog's-sake stuff, chances are you don't mind instrumentals.

With enough force and bombast to give the listener a concussion, the overall effect is rather heavy-handed; that may be no bad thing if you're especially keen on what Logos is offering, but if you're more on the fence (as I am) then it can make it hard to get into.