AFTERGLOW

Wobbler

Symphonic Prog

3.84 | 418 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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I quite liked the debut album from this Nordic band (four stars I rated), and I was expecting their follow-up with lots of enthusiasm.

I can't say that the music is disappointing (far from it), but to release new mixes of demos as well as ten years old material is not quite revolutionary to say the least. And the final result lasts for less then thirty-five (yes 35) minutes. And to top all this: four years have passed since their first release!

What I don't like either is the comments made by the band about their upcoming third album: "it will have 6 songs - about 45/50 minutes - though we were thinking of releasing an album even shorter than Afterglow just for the heck of it". This is just a poor way to try to show some sense of "humour". Sorry guys, but I don't join.

About the music from "Afterglow". This EP is fully in the vein of the Nordic and great scene. Although still derivative, the music is much more concentrated on the Crimson atmosphere than their "Hinterland" debut which was borrowing to a whole range of prog giants.

There are still inevitable "Genesis" oriented vocals (which was not the case in their debut) during the first true song: "Imperial Winter White". The band could avoid the trap in "Hinterland" but apparently not here?

The second song is "In Taberna" which is quite elegant: superb mellotron, great and melodic fluting and some sort of the Nordic coldness are indeed great ingredients. You can add some ELP spices, and you got it all. Actually, nothing really new under the sun. Pleasant for sure. But conventional.

The other three short pieces are really not worth (especially "Interlude"). An EP, no more?

The music played is good, even if the band couldn't show a lot of progress (which is normal since none of these tracks is truly new material) but I don't like the attitude of the band. They'd better concentrate to built a decent website to communicate rather than an old looking static and boring page (being their own website or their "myspace" one).

Three stars.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 | 2009-7-24

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