OF BRINE AND ANGELS BEAKS

Be prepared, around one hour of amazing modern styled prog! Almost too much at once to handle this. Don't have noticed these excellent musicians beforehand, it was about time now and yet. Five young chaps coming from United Kingdom's Brighton, with their sophomore offer out in 2021. What a spectacular one! Biodiversity in music terms one can say, where this is deriving from an obvious heavy progressive rock fundament overall. Chris Sampson pulls the strings here, he's dealing with vocals and guitars, the latter alongside with Galen Stapley. Hence flexibility is guaranteed, including the option to comfortably combine both the acoustic and electric variant when it comes to further live gigs. The album songs already are delivering an energetic performance in general, can't imagine how this is working from the stage.

Two short kick-off tracks immediately are revealing some trademarks, extravagance, the trickiness of the compositions, fantasy styled lyrics, expressive vocals, some crunchy metal guitar thrills aso aso ... The melodic epic Ameotoko I - The Curse, the explosive The Jester Who Cheated Death or the Queen inspired Lustre: Siphon Of Umbra are leaving nothing to be desired. The psychedelic tinged and more mellow parts, just to name the beautiful Mercy for example, are reminding me of US band Temple Garden a bit. The album title track in the same way, melancholic, touching. A greatly arranged album, don't miss that, prog fan! 4.5 stars.