BLACK SCIENCE AND WHITE LIES

INFRINGEMENT band created by the guitarist of WINDMILL; a basic symphonic sound on ARENA, CAMEL and GENESIS as admitted reminiscences; it is the 3rd album which in my opinion goes on the heavy of PAIN OF SALVATION and the colorful vintage prog of Mr BUNGLE and other BIGELF; the synths and the lyrics leaning towards Neal MORSE.

"White Lies" in 5 parts, a text on the strict religious education of parents, on the heretical side in fact and the desire to escape from it; a piece with the announcing intro in phrasing and crystalline piano. The indoctrination is on its way and launches the conceptual sound, between heavy of time with haunting organs of time, a crazy air like FAITH NO MORE, prog metal. The siren choirs, the witch in heat, the hypnotic riff that plunges into the 70s for a while before extracting the best of them including this last velvety keyboard solo; Genesis-like break and participatory phrasing before launching a fat guitar solo between old neo, with the darkness and the warm vintage sound. The slap mixing neo with the old before leaving for another progressive space where Emil's bass throws sparks on the hot embers. A break of pure happiness with a reminiscence of DEEP PURPLE; a tenacious riff, an organ, the airy, refined rhythm and the enjoyable, orgasmic moment with this wild crescendo; the final vocal on the vocoder, shouted, in any case amplifying and signing an intense and disturbing progressive moment. The finale with the opera-rock choirs of a 'Bohemian Rhapsody', the worn voice, hold on a barely hidden LED ZEPPELIN riff takes us on a confusing track merging vintage heavy rock with a Genesisian air. A magnificent musical heresy that mixes, brews genres to better bewitch before the final haunting piano; I note Alice COOPER, KAYAK see CAST as groups coming to mind.

"Black Science" in 6 parts for the search for perfection, a dead-end attempt hence the search for the family nest; Louisiana gospel at the start, melting organ à la ANGLAGARD, prog takes the lead in this second chapter; we waver to let our ears listen to this archaic sound of today, magnificently boosted. The neo returns to the charge; a bass break suddenly reinforcing the hero's thoughts, the complex, captivating sound with a cheerful and bucolic title, from the Charisma Label of GENESIS. A nervous rise before descending a capella on a divine air, almost new-wave, AND YOU WILL KNOW? for the pop side. The break with Crimson Skies and its detuned wood piano for the dark, intense, stunning air; good luck or not I hear some KING CRIMSON with its famous crescendo. The jazzy finale with the piano flowing all by itself and its military drums leaves 'Dissension' its phrasing on a singular horn in dramatic mode, the moment when the hero understands that returning is the only viable solution; the instrumentation is amazing with these beautiful vintage flights, listen to me this organ which inevitably brings back to the 70s, the beauty is there. The finale with the neo sound of ARENA mystic with the Olympian choirs signs a last velvety guitar solo leading to the firmament.

INFRINGEMENT a sound apart, stacked breaks, vintage instruments, languorous and warm airs. Eclectic, symphonic and grandiloquent neo prog, proving that the prog of yesteryear can be excellent. Originally on Profilprog.