THE GIGSAW

Reinaldo on bass, keyboards, guitars and vocals

Alvaro on keyboards and synths

Barbara on drums and percussion

Glaydston on lead and backing vocals

M'rcia on lead and backing vocals

Symptoms of Life. Great organ intro'After a doomy and tedious riff-like loop, and a jazzy song behind it, an amazing guitar makes its entrance gently placing handcuffs on both the song structure and the listener, tasty as it can get and acoustic passage included. I'm in'but not crazy about the vocals here.

Igneous Vortex Dancer changes the mood and jumps back to retro 70's heavy prog rock, dark and brief but setting the melody ambience for the follow up, the beautiful Enslavement of Beauty in which we can finally hear the precious female vocals, kind of dancing besides the rhythmic section alla #portishead, and even more great guitar that enhances the already hypnotic vocal work. Great song, a little sticky towards the end but great enough.

Equinox is another melodic hook that shows some of the #eloy and #pinkfloyd influences displaying very enjoyable psychedelic music. I wonder how this album would sound in Portuguese, because the vocal harmonies here are really cool but the accent is too noticeable. One of my favs from the album

Amok trip hops it's way in accompanied by some melancholic strings, like a pop version of an experimental Radiohead, very unique combination I must say. This is the second Brazilian band I've had the honor to listen to and review, and there's a meeting point between the two of them, and that's the prolonged song intros, always catchy but not always necessary, over 5 minutes in this case'at least the initial concept is still maintained.

Your eyes has some strange early feeling sounding kind of raw and underproduced but doing it's job as a bridge song to The Order, where a combination of folky guitars and tasty licks lead the way to one of the best vocal moments of the album. The song gets better towards the last quarter when the guitar solo takes over and rounds up the result.

Zeitgeist, the soul and jazzy track of the album, groovy and psychedelic instrumental that reminds me a little bit of the late 70's Pink Floyd, the same that was kind of unintentionally injected with disco music. Nice keys.

Widow's Daughter is a dreamy pop mellow and sad song, where the singer's tearful drama is smartly interrupted for yet a much better hook, simple melodies that are glued together from song to song without sounding boring or repetitive, they are different but they belong together, like the transition from this song to The Mirror. I'm not sure if the band decides to apply effects to their vocals as a distraction from the accent, but I'll insist this would sound amazing in Portuguese.

The Mirror lifts and tries to animate a little, circus-like drumming included at some point, and more Gilmour-like guitar playing can be heard and enjoyed, which is always welcomed. Honor mention to the keyboards, they are a huge part of how this album sounds.

The Last Ride, Part 1. Soulful guitars, fat bass, vocal harmonies again, atmospheric keys' that's how this song goes, back and forth, it feels intense but simple at the same time and after 4mins it just throws a playful kind of symphonic 30plus seconds delirium, pretty cool.

The Last Ride, Part 2, does nothing to me really, not really sure why it stands as Part 2, at least not the way Part 1 ended, can't find a collision point between them, for some reason it pulled me out of my trip.

Fatality Show has yet another cool guitar playing, very heartfelt soloing. The effects on the vocals I'm not in love with, but I do love the simplicity of opening and closing acoustic guitars, I'm a sucker for that clean sound.

Symptoms Of Life Reprise' the closer.

I've enjoyed listening to this album for a couple of weeks now, it doesn't necessarily grows in every listen but it definitely shows the variety of details in time. Enjoy.

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