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THE CLOCKWORK FABLE

Gandalf's Fist

 

Neo-Prog

4.11 | 231 ratings

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Progrussia
4 stars If listening to a 3 CD album seems daunting to you, take solace in that half of the tracks are narrative. Musically, it's the peculiar but familiar for their listeners formula of taking fantasy folk, epic hard rock in Iron Maiden style, your typical Genesis influence and wrap it in a psychedelic package, with its far-out, culturally-familiar-but-inverted concepts. In essense, hobbit campfire sing-a-long.

The Clockwork Fable continues the line of Forest of Fey by emphasizing the folk and shifting focus to (better) guest vocalists. Does it work? Story and music are well integrated (usually for prog, the story is just a device, but here it is the music that serves the story). Strictly musically, its pleasant and not too complicated, despite the average 10-minute (save for the occasional bursts of metal and folkish instrumental wankery). But the album does seem to be dragged out a bit, especially the middle which sometimes feels uneventful and too simliar in vibe.

Progrussia | 4/5 |

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