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ONE MAN TELL'S ANOTHER

Landberk

 

Heavy Prog

3.87 | 117 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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3 stars With this album Landberk is truly heading a heavier sound: it is noticeable in the opening and cold Time, but Kontiki holds all the aspects of the genre: drumming is pretty hard for most of the song, keyboards are hit quite frenetically and the overall mood of the first part of this song is on the heavy Crimson-esque way.

Still, the song turns into a pastoral yet intriguing mood after this. It doesn't sound very much structured (but the masters paved the way long before). Although Kontiki is not an easy listening number, it is one of the best on this Man's Tell's Another .

The first average song form this album is the jazzy Mirror Man: repetitive and little inspired; the vocals are on the dull side. This song doesn't pass the test of several spins: after a few of them, one is pressing the magic key (next, but perhaps you knew it).

A song as You Are will probably suits a lot of people, but this is really too much of an Anekdotenial affair; and it is probably what affects the most here: lack of innovation, of personality, of self input. Creativity is just missing: period.

Even if fine mellotron parts are splendid of course, they are not sufficient to re-create the great feeling of their debut. The experimental Valentinsong is also difficult to grasp to be honest. An enhanced version of Moonchild somehow.The last four minutes finally features some fine and dark symphonic music, but it was difficult to get there (you know, the press next syndrome).

Even if the closing track is my fave one and holds all the features of a great Landberk song, I can't rate this work above three stars. It is a bit of a deception for me.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 |

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