SECOND LIFE SYNDROME

I received a recommendation from a "Rate Your Music" user to check out Riverside - I owe him (or her?) a pint or four!

This is a fantastic production of well arranged music featuring musicianship of the highest order. You could be 'put off' by the length of some of the tracks on the album - but don't be. All the tracks work very well, and if you like the guitar style and arrangements of early Marillion, then you will absolutely adore Riverside, in fact the production is so powerful that it could even be considered to be superior to those early Marillion releases.

Riverside are from Poland, and it cannot have been easy for them marketing their music from a country which would not appear to have the rock music history or industry infrastructure of nations such as the UK or USA.

Hats off to Riverside, they are a fantastic rock band.