FEEDING ON THE SPIRIT

This is a wonderful keyboard/synth-dominated melting pot of space-rock musings. Really enjoyable, sounds quite fresh, production is great. No guitars, but they use distorted organs a lot instead, so some tracks can get quite heavy. No vocals except for some isolated samples used for effect.

Track Comments:

6. The Great Attractor (4 stars): One of the highlights of the album, dominated by a clavinet-like synth, quite dissonant. The track alternates between two styles - one mysterious and dissonant, the other heavy and aggressive.

12. ...Progress (4.5 stars): Fast, swirling synths and bass, and a captivating synth lead, with an almost prog-metal like groove taking over about half-way through.

13. The Intruder (4 stars): The album contains many short-ish interludes like this, and they work quite well in linking the longer tracks.

14. Brink Of Collapse (4.5 stars): Perhaps the most dissonant and chaotic track on the album. In general the musicians are great at capturing the essence of the track titles/topics in their playing. Or did it work the other way round? Does not matter, the result is the same.

Originally published at awesomeprog.com