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ECHOLYN

Echolyn

 

Symphonic Prog

4.03 | 561 ratings

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agla
4 stars After seven years of silence the Echolyn reappear with a double album, the seventh in a major career : no title, a window on the cover, eight pieces of varying length and different expressive intensity, the center still a strong personality but with a few wrinkles. A rather long gestation, " Echolyn " probably reveals for the first time in the history of the quintet a certain weariness, or rather a lack of synthesis. If the secret of Echolyn was the co-existence of the soul and melodic genius, this time this feature is found only in a few episodes and not the entire operation.

The songs that open and close the disc " Island" ( one of the most exciting moments of the LP) and " The Cardinal and I " representing the stages more like prog aesthetics. Then there are the most sensual songs definitely come out of the pen Brett Kull, as " Locust to Bethlehem " and " Speaking in Lampblack " ( dragging the melodic idea with that ' "Everything comes around again at once " that comes into your head and not it goes ... ) , writing for strings really effective!!!

" Echolyn " is a great work, performed and produced with impeccable professionalism, but knowing the usual standards of Echolyn, the dominant feeling is that of an unfinished work, in which the two strong souls, Kull and Buzby, have not found the right harmonization. Songs like usual excellent climate make it stand out a bit more ' faded but the other class, the sensitivity and the muscles Echolyn always live in the house, with a bit of imagination in the least.

4,5 stars

agla | 4/5 |

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