OCEAN WITHOUT A SHORE

Weather Systems

Crossover Prog

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Great to see you back Daniel Cavanagh, and what a way to do it. Anyone who loves later era Anathema, in particular its namesake, will adore this. Great song writing (as always), musicianship and as emotive as ever. I truly hope the band tour this and play it in full. Mr Cavanagh deserves far more recognition than he gets both as a songwriter and as a guitarist, and should be lauded as one of Liverpool's greatest ever musicians which is high praise indeed. Essential stuff from start to finish and packed full of ear worms. DC's struggles are widely known, and reflected in the album title, and I hope this is the first of many new great things to come for him and the band.

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Posted Saturday, October 26, 2024 | Review Permalink

richardh
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As is fairly well know now, this is the band that rises from the ashes of the dear departed Liverpudlian band Anathema. That was started as a metal band by the 3 Cavanagh brothers who then decided to develop a more 'alternative' style of music on albums such as 1999's Judgement (probably their most popular) and carried forward on the next 2 albums A Fine Day To Exit and A Natural Disaster. The sister of drummer John Douglas was added to the line up and she was to prove the magical added x-factor for arguably their finest albums We're Here Because We're Here and Weather Systems (my favourite). This seemed to be a peak that was hard to build on with it's wonderful mesh of post metal, pop and prog in evidence. A couple of further albums followed but eventually this wonderful band had to call it a day. However the new material has now re-surfaced on this Daniel Cavanagah lead re-birth of the band (sort of). Also features Daniel Cardoso on keys, so in fact it now becomes a 2 piece band. This for me is almost as good as the Weather Systems album and is currently in my top 5 albums for the year, only beaten so far by A Swarm Of The Sun (more post metal!), Neal Morse and Geordie Greep. Highly recommended if you like Anathema in general. 4.9 stars rounded up.

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Posted Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | Review Permalink

Paschendale

A very, very strong album that serves as an Anathema redux.

As a long time Anathema fan, I was deeply saddened by all the recent drama which ultimately led to their abrupt disbanding. One would have thought we wouldn't get fresh new music - but this release proves otherwise.

This album is pure class and feels extremely comforting - I've had it on repeat and all of the songs are nothing short of exceptional. Danny's writing is emotionally charged and fitting, but I'm not even going to attempt to dissect the lyrics given they seem to be a function of whatever he's been going through lately. Musically, this is Anathema to a core and delivers in spades (hell, Weather Systems is even named after my favourite album from them - and this seems to continue that mood).

I recommend all Anathema fans listen to this. It carries that same magic that made us fans in the first place.

One thing I'd like to say in closing is that I'd love to ultimately see some form of reconciliation and a reuniting of Anathema (as we previously knew it). While this album is incredible, it's clear that 1+1 = 3 when it comes to the band (the sum of their collective efforts exceeds what they can do individually). Hopefully they can see eye-to-eye one day and we get that. But if not, I'm hopeful Danny continues with Weather Systems and keeps giving us gems like this.

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Posted Wednesday, November 20, 2024 | Review Permalink

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