FORSAKEN INNOCENCE

DRIFTING SUN has been Pat SANDERS for over 25 years! It's their 5th album (7 if we start from the beginning) with John "JARGON" KOSMIDIS frontman of VERBAL DELIRIUM, little bomb from last year; it's Mathieu SPAETER on guitar, Jimmy PALLAGROSI the barrel animal and the great John JOWITT. Just that requires to be listened to religiously given their precedent which left me unsatisfied.

"King of the Country" and a title heralding great music, a little magic violin by Eric BOUILLETTE who shows that what he touches turns into beautiful things, keyboards well in their place, a monolithic but gripping voice , at certain times the LIGHT DAMAGE recognizes itself in it, in short, nothing to throw away. '' Insidious '' starts from an orchestral piano base pouring into a symphonic allure, an ethereal, ethereal break coming from Heaven with its tormented angelic voices and its Choirs; the texture is melodic with intimate forays, the final piano in cascades of crystalline notes brings back to the world. "Dementium" continues on the same line and offers an ersatz, bis repetita too / very pronounced melodic, the notes of the instruments are drowned in this deluge of notes; the more aggressive John's voice and the Hammond solo; at the limit a sweet rhyme / ballad well in the neo-prog tone. "New Dawn" piano entry, syrupy voice reminding me of a song by THAT JOE PAYNE on the classical and symphonic limit and a solo by Gareth COLE all in emotion and spleen.

"Forsaken Innocence (Part 1)" for the song from the album, begins a telefilm series for this 'Vidocq' harpsichord, Eric's violin still intimate and warm at the same time; here the successions of drawers remain neo and not jazzy which is a plus in my opinion with the current trend of fusion which is a little too generalized. The digression is meant to be melodic, the piano remaining the anchor point before relaunching the notes, the ultimate moment of which is the 8 'solo which melts your hair (personal quote I admit). "Forsaken Innocence (Part 2)" is not properly chained by leaving on an orchestral break à la IQ, it squirts, it melts (again) everywhere, the J's (John and Jimmy) shoot red balls at you; dithyrambic, supercharged, supercharged, amplified, dreamlike is this title; Mathieu rhymes with melodic ingenuity to follow Pat in his meandering keyboards; it is personally at 9 minutes that the moment becomes emphatic with an umpteenth melodic piano solo leading to wisdom, to rest; the finale picks up on the initial theme by giving the coup de grace and which makes me immediately press 'Replay'. '' Time to Go 'for an intermission at the end of the album with piano / guitar and voice, just to go back down? "Hand on Heart (bonus track)" which could have not been put showing a basic neo prog without much inspiration here in view of the previous titles.

DRIFTING SUN just released their best album to date out of the five I know. A sound on SAVIOR MACHINE, FATES WARNING from the beginning, IQ and of course MARILLION, on a KANSAS on vitaminized with this violin which enhances; a keyboard which shows very beautiful flights and gives energy to this album not to be forgotten.