SUMMEREVE

It's not unlikely I just found myself the album of the year with this latest release by Hostsonaten. I was just checking the site of my fellow countrymen (DPRP) merely out of curiosity and I detected a 10 out of 10 there. Now why doesn't that surprise me... ?

Compared to that our own 4,02 (so far) is a very modest score for such a jewel I would say. And another remarkable thing is: 134 ratings with just 7 (?) reviews at this point. It makes you wonder if this is a tough album to review. Well, actually it could be because I find it hard myself to say much about it. Let's give it a shot: it's enchanting instrumental music with high quality melodic tracks is the best I can do. I'm not really familiar with this band and RPI is not quite the subgenre I would expect listening to this. It's more like symphonic prog, a bit in the style (not sound !) of Clearlight. Best tracks are the opening (mini) epic and the marvellous closer (guitar !). The rest is way above par as well by the way.

In the end the rating is just about as tough to determine as the review. It's a very tough call between 4 and 5 stars but since I can't detect any flaws and it's an overall more than excellent effort by Hostsonaten I will round up this time. Album of the year ? To me it (probably) is !