COLORSTAR

For the people who are interested in this band: this is one of their best albums. Here they perfectly find the balance between spacerock and triphop.

The guitars and synths are inspired by spacerock (Eloy, Pink Floyd) and the rhythms are mostly funky and inspired by triphop and dance. But there's also reggae-dub and the balkansound to be found on this record. Also the band tries and succeeds at harmony-vocals.

The shorter songs have a real pop-flavour, like Roam the Land (wich remind a bit of Jamiroquai and Zagar), but the main attraction is 10+ minute long spacerock song Origination, wich builds and builds with synths, drums and guitars. This is their most spacerock-song from this album, and reminds of Eloy and Pink Floyd.

Another example is the great Sudden Love, wich starts slowly and builds to a crescendo and then suddenly breaks down to make way for a trumpet-solo over a southern american-beat. It's really amazing how the band plays so tight with the sequencers and drumcomputer.

Maybe this band is too modern and progressive for the listeners of progrock, to be truly appreciated. But for the ones who can look past the low rating, this is really a must-have. I can only hope that more bands were progressive like ColorStar (Zagar, Younger Brother and Masfel come to mind).

Anyway: highly recommended!