A TRACE OF MEMORY

SANGUINE HUM is releasing its best album to date: starting with good neo-prog à la Genesis revisited, a little electro, a touch of pop, I saw prog a little crazy and singular in itself. Here it is rapid evolution with its own sound, now drawing more towards RADIOHEAD and Steven WILSON.

"New Light" for a dynamic, engaging and a little spleen-meditative instrumental, a tune that trots at the head. "The Yellow Ship" starts with the 2 groups mentioned above with a long melodic and fruity suite, bathed in mainly instrumental art-music. "Pyramids" continues with a slightly synthetic Wilsonian sound, in a fusion of what the members of Thom and Steve could have done. "Thin Air" and a catch-all track with caviar in it: keyboards and electric piano for an ambient tune, a guitar solo then a jazzy tune very smoothly which goes to post-rock in the end! "Unstable Ground" and a torture title with a melancholy, cheerful rhyme, the oxymoremusical prog still there to move us. "Still as the Sea" and the jazzy side that drives home the point, an intimate moment with sharing of the enlightened voice and instruments in particular the piano. Hypnotic title in itself which makes you engage the replay, replay, replay key! "Automaton" for the finale and the 2nd long instrumental track, ambient, progressive, post-mmelodic, which can be listened to without thinking. A BLOOD HUM sound finally. Album of the consecration I do not know, but album that could have passed in my top20 if I had managed to land on it before the end of the year.