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The world scene of progressive rock sometimes trembles with spanish rhythms. At the time of their second effort, this band from Madrid have become a trio and are helped here and there by some keyboards and strings. This is a more polished work than their debut but it still oozes nerve, dynamics and extremism.

Far away from typical or natural cadences, they bet for a hard progressive rock with crimsonian flavours to build complex passages, with complex signature changes and break ups, where the guitar riffs and arpeggios lead the songs. Let me tell you these guys really love to write complex signatures and develop them so naturally.

But after all, this doesn't end in unintelligible music. Furthermore, it takes you into a hard psychedelic universe that delights you enriched with dreamy and cosmic lyrics. The music is brilliant and the vocal performance from guitarist Pablo Tato is quite accomplished too.

Psicotropia is a great band from Spain and they should be taken into account in the international scene, just like other spanish bands like Senogul or Kotebel, just to name a few.