Anglagard - Hybris

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: It's pretty boring. I think 70s prog bands did a fairly good job exploring the sound. I don't need to hear anymore of it. but it doesn't even sound similar to 70s prog.  You people are nuts And Starcastle never heard of Yes.

OK, given that logic name me which 70s band Anglagard are ripping off? Starcastle is to Yes as Anglagard is to...?

Snow Dog wrote: I have to agree with those that are saying the it doesn't sound like any seventies band. It doesn't. It just uses seventies instruments.

THANK YOU

I too bought it blindly, based on the fantastic ranking it gets in the PA polls, as I so often agree with the general collective rankings.   Its certainly very good, but am surprised its considered so freakin' great.    Perhaps part of it being held in such high regard is because it came out during a pretty dry period in Prog history, and helped spawn a new day for Prog Rock.  There's many Prog albums that came after it that I like more (and certainly that came before it.)

Triceratopsoil wrote: it brought me "immediate joy" I prefer Epilog, though, if only by a little.  Both are 5* albums

i heard them on here months ago and have since acquired everthing i can get form them, hybris is amazing to me

Its glorious prog and not overrated in the slightest. Its a masterpiece album. Whats wrong with you people?

Hey, another great thread redug from the past, please allow me to address You something.

I personally felt similarly as Epignosis about this and the following studio albums of Änglagård; I recon beautiful ideas but to my ears there are annoying compositional solutions executed.
But I was really happy about their latest recording Viljans Öga, which I felt moved to different intensity and orientation on the compositional level, yet maturing their original sound without drastic changes in this sector.
Possibly it takes very much time for maturing the arts of emulating symphonic classical music's philosphies through rock music expression.
It is also evident that the aims of composore's might have changed. The "tricky" and "intelligently complex" sound patterns morphosis towards more romantic coherension could be seen as regression from a different perspective.

I contemplated that the enthusiastic impact for the album and band was due both their sound AND availibility through widespread merchadise channels.
I think there are much innovative and lovely retro art rock bands found from nearly everywhere, based on to the limited perspection granted to me so far from different parts of the world.
As a whole, on Sweden the 90's mellotron prog revival concisted from many fine bands, but I often felt it took and album or few from all of them to reach the highest spheres on their grandiose flight.

Hopefully OP still enjoys the album, but I wouldn't buy anything based on praises on any top-lists, hopefully people would do some previews from audio samples of the album before spending money.
I bid you all wonderful Al Saints Day.

I'm not saying it's bad, I just think that they move too fast between musical themes, instead of developing on certain ideas.