DELUSION RAIN

The band music has improve a lot since their debut. This time, they have a new singer, Jean Pageau. What strikes me at first listening to this album is the prefect production. The sound is clear and loud which each instrument bursting in the speakers. After a Pink Floyd intro, the self-titled song see the emergence of the acoustic and electric guitar succeeding each other with plenty of guitar solos of the master of his instrument, Michel St-P're. The heavy bass sound and the overall music remind me of the Neo-Prog band Pallas, influence that reoccur at some place throughout this album. In the song "If You see Her", there is some nice keys/guitar interplay and the pattern of the first song is repeated. The epic "The Willow Tree" is the highlight of the cd with a song that start as a ballad, then shift to a fast tempo and a long instrumental passage. The same themes are repeated like the ballad and the acoustic part, it's a back and forth of acoustic and electric moments. Before the end, I felt that some parts were too stretched out. In the last two songs we have the two opposite moods of the cd, the Pink Floyd delicate sound and the heavy sound of Pallas. There's some impressive musicianship here and the production make it well worth listening, but nothing new in this style of music and I always have the same impression after listening to a Mystery release, the songs are missing that spark or inspiration that could elevate the band to the level of the great bands.