EVERYTHING CHANGES

Us produce and play some pretty basic symphonic neo-prog. Their songs are long, but not particular technical. Us does not really impresses in the uber-tech department. They relies more on the art of creating good tunes. They use tonnes of keyboards and guitars to do this. That and some samples of symphonic orchestras. Their recording budgets are minimal so I guess the symphonic orchestra pieces here are keyboard created. With their budgets, I doubts they could even afford the Mongolian Symphony Orchestra. But the symphonic orchestra bits sounds great so no complaints from me here.

The main problem Us has is the rather tired vocals. Something I have now pointed out in my reviews of their previous albums too. The instrumentation are good and even great at places.

The songs are good, with the exception of the rather minimalistic and cringe worthy lyrics on the opening epic The Rules Of The Game. But the other songs are good.

There is nothing really bad or good to be said about this album. Those into minimalistic neo- prog should lap this album up. Most people will like this album, but not adore it. It is a good album and that's it.

3 stars