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REVOLUTIONS

Magenta

 

Neo-Prog

3.57 | 206 ratings

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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
2 stars I think I have heard only the first Cd in its entirity and bits of the second but it is also enough to pin-point this as over-rated neo-prog. I was unaware until today of the date of release of this double CD. Actually it is a thread on the forum that drove to write what I remember hearing few months ago. Unaware of the date of release because I had thought of this as some clone to Mostly Autumn (not a great fan either) but this is anterior to M A . So if anything , the singing of M A would be based on Magenta's. This is typically your average neo-prog outing but I must say that there are some relatively catchy hooks to some moments i.e. the first movement of the White Witch. It was enough to get me interested and even get exited to it even though all of the sonorities were so typically neo. Until the third or fourth movement of that long number (20 min+) than I suddendly fell of my chair: no. No. No! NO ! NOOOAAHHHHHHHHRGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They did it !!!!!!!!! The arpeggios are a rip-off from Entangled from ATOTT by you-know-who.

HOLD IT (imagine I just sized up to police character height to 78) , THAT'S IT , it's done with me , I don't want to have anything to do with the rest of this ......... toooooo bad though good start . Oh well ! ........... it's getting late . I must be going ......... Hoooooooooooooome sweet home Where did I put that album again , you know the one where there is a nurse and a judge and a thief ........ Ah there it is .........quick !!!!!!!!! mmmmmmh.......... Good night!

Sean Trane | 2/5 |

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