NO POCUS WITHOUT HOCUS

A second album from this Belgian group that draws its influences from legendary 70s bands such as PINK FLOYD, The DOORS, DIRE STRAITS, BLACK SABBATH, while retaining their own identity.

"Pixelated Friends" is a first track that announces their color with a hell of a rhythm and a very soft, disconcerting break followed by "Stoned and Horny" a track diving into Morrisonian volutes with a hypnotic, heavy and captivating bass à la Levin of LTE. "Sweet Dark Hypnosis" is less catchy which allows "She's Crying Diamonds" to show the full extent of the band's knowledge with its slowed down, melancholic tempo, then its intoxicating guitar playing... 5 minutes of pure progressive happiness. "Nothing Can Go Wrong" takes up a little of the band's own foundations, with this heavy tone and an aquatic ending of the most beautiful effect. On "A Wooden Groove", there are energetic riffs close to stoner, guitar solos and a titanic drum finale suggesting more prog titles!

Then there are two tracks, two pure gems where the guitar of DIRE STRAITS comes to invite itself, the first of all beauty with fruity, soaring sounds, associated with others more greasy, oily: the art and the manner where "Bad Wolf of the Pack" goes even further with sounds flirting with The DOORS and BLUE OYSTER CULT, nothing less! "Wild Flower" the ballad to rest the ears from having regressed so much in a few minutes, crystalline piano notes, a cathedral atmosphere. "Mermaids" takes up the calm sound of the album with a phrasing and a bass guitar seeming to come straight out of a DOORS album. Finally, the last title clearly indicating that we are dealing with a pure prog album, "Elena" takes us one last time to the shores of the 70s with a psychedelic, symphonic air where the organ sounds the flights of the church!

In short, you will have probably understood, you have with this album a sound of a group that grew up listening to major prog music and who was also able to monopolize it to release a little pearl half-stoner, half-prog, half-brilliant... ah yes that makes three.