CHINESE SONGS - PART ONE

Little Tragedies

Symphonic Prog

3.40 | 31 ratings

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Windhawk
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Closing in on a 15 years long career, Little Tragedies showcase some excellent songwriting skills on part 1 of their Chinese Songs release.

The album basically comes across as a mix of two styles: Lush, ambient and slightly new age soundscapes and epic, dramatic symphonic rock not vastly different from Emerson, lake and Palmer in style.

Layers of synths are a dominating fixture in all tunes, and the piano is a very central instrument as well. Melodic, floating and carefully crafted melody lines in the mellow songs and segments are mixed beautifully with complex melodies in the more pounding prog rock tunes and segments, with piano, guitar riffs, keyboards and synths all providing parts of a melody - except when one of the instruments are soloing; then the other instruments underscore in a very nice manner.

Good and interesting compositions here too, fans of symphonic prog rock that also enjoy new age like or ambient music will probably love this release; as long as the all Russian vocals isn't a problem.

Windhawk | 4/5 | 2008-6-3

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