FUTURE LEGENDS

I want to thank Tom Ozric for convincing me to purchase this recording, as I had debated for some time about getting it. I really enjoyed my time with it last week, and today on my day off I gave it a couple of more spins. It's really cool to hear some excellent prog from Ireland as well. I wondered if they used mellotron on this album but they don't, instead they use real strings as well as string-synths.

"Future Legends" is a minute and a half intro track of mainly violin melodies. "Decision" opens with drums and piano that build to a full sound quickly. Raw sounding guitar takes over. Nothing soft or gentle about this ! Violin comes in before reserved vocals and light drums arrive. Bass and piano before 2 minutes then themes are repeated. After 3 minutes he yells followed by a scorching guitar solo that goes on and on. Amazing section. It calms down 4 1/2 minutes with vocal melodies. Nice. The ripping guitar is back ! Excellent track. "As Day Breaks With Dawn" is pastoral to begin with as piano and cymbals lead the way. A full sound with vocals after a minute. It becomes atmospheric with soft vocals a minute later. The contrast continues. Some great sounding guitar 4 1/2 minutes in as cool sounding vocals come in to end it.

"Graveyard Epistle" is uptempo at first with a bit of a YES vibe. It settles quickly with reserved vocals and a mellow soundscape. The contrast continues.Love the energetic sections. They just seem to jam for a while in the middle section before the contrasts of earlier return. Great tune. "Lord Of The Incubus" opens with more vocal melodies before vocals take over. Piano melodies before some nice guitar after 3 minutes. A YES flavour before 5 minutes with the vocal melodies coming back a minute later. "Olde Tyme Future" features mournful guitar with string-synths and drums. It changes 2 1/2 minutes in to a MOODY BLUES sound briefly as vocals come in. Some nice bass lines and more vocal meldies follow. One of my favourites on here. "Song For A Thought" opens with some aggressive guitar before settling down a minute in. Vocals follow in this drifting passage.Nice bass too. Raw guitar 5 1/2 minutes in with violin leads to an energetic ending. "Future Legends" ends the album with a short multi-vocal piece and acoustic guitar.

Just an excellent album that is worthy of anyone's collection.