INFLUENCE GRIND

Cap Outrun is a progressive rock band from Sweden formed by Andrée Theander (guitars) and Erik Wiss (keyboards) in 2007. They release so far an EP in 2008 named Influence grinde. Well, I bought this album, with 6 pieces from cdbaby , man, what an album, maybe and for sure the best EP I've ever heard. The music is very good, solid, prog rock with a touch of jazz fusion and here and there some prog metal leanings but without being a prog metal album. Similar with Karmakanic , even Toto or Dream Theater atmosphere and passages are peresent here, but in the end a very very worthy album. The guitarand keybords are great, intelligent and well composed. It sounds very elegant with brilliant vocal parts, made by 3 diffrent vocalists, for instance Jonas Källsbäck on second track Spaces in between is awesome, smooth with great tone in his voice, Petter Boström on piece A Flash of Deviation is aswell top notch, a more complicated version of Toto both on instrumental arrangements and vocal style but very good. So, I will give a big 4 stars, realy, very strong album, with only 6 pieces, I wanted more after nearly 30 min, but maybe in the future I will heare good news about this band with lot of potential and yet very unkbown to larger public. recommended for sure. progressive rock with intelligent arrangements who keeps the flag high in this scene. Great cover art IMO