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IN THE LAST WAKING MOMENTS...

Edison's Children

 

Neo-Prog

3.86 | 265 ratings

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SteveG
3 stars Due to my excitement over Edison's Children's newest album The Disturbance Fields, I decided to take a listen again to the duo's first recorded work In The Last Waking Moments. This album is very much an experimental effort where Pete Trewavas and Eric Blackwood were seeing how they clicked musically in a trial and error effort. Generally, the music is quite slow paced, somber and very atmospheric, reminding me of contemporary Marillion and early Porcupine Tree with a bevy of "Floydian" sound effects thrown in for good measure. There is none of the guitar pyrotechnics found the group's two following albums or the incredible keyboard work that would come later by Trewavas. Pete does branch out on guitar but his thundering bass playing is always present and is a cornerstone to each song, just as it is in Marillion.

Two songs that break the atmospheric soup are the loud manic rocker "Fallout (of the second kind)", that seems out of place on the album with it's heavy synths and guitars, as well as the guitar heavy "Lifeline". Heavier song structures that the duo would expand upon on later albums. The 15 minute "The Awakening" is a the album's prog centerpiece, and frankly, it was the type of song that the duo was more than capable of pulling off and that I had really been expecting. Unfortunately, it's too little too late. Of the slower paced atmospheric songs, that I mentioned earlier, the sublime "A Million Miles Away (I wish I had a time machine), "Dusk" and "Spiraling" work the best.

Aside from two songs that feature Marillion drummer Ian Mosley, the rest of the songs feature programmed drums and percussion that make the songs sound very mechanical and demo-ish, I'm afraid. Real drummers, thankfully, would be employed on later albums. Luckily, the duo would combine all of the musical elements they created on In The Last Waking Moments to create epic haunting prog on their next album. But for now, In The Last Waking Moments remains both a trial run through and a blue print for their great music to follow.

SteveG | 3/5 |

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