THE GATHERING LIGHT

Symphonic, Folk or Neo Prog ? Perhaps all of these styles combined together. Folk is here also in element of unusual instruments like whistles and Uellian pipes. This album is simply the brightest side of Prog releases this year. It's masterpiece of positivity, of good mood, optimistic thinking.

Some people likes to think that this kind of music gives you waves of good mood (or good waves?), but I just believe that positive music is always good when I feel like listening it. Not that I like just these, but I like it this way, that's it, simply as nutshell.

This album features mostly longer compositions ranging from 5'n'half minute to 14 minutes, something quite usual in past. However, what's completely not usual is that this album was made by completely different people than the one 7 years prior to "The Gathering Light", except Ian Jones they all are different.

Thankfully, the most distinct member is vocal department and I have to say that she sounds good. Actually, listening "The Storm" few months before this one, these vocalists sounds the same to me, so no harm done, no offense taken, everyone's happy. Relatively.

This isn't emo album, yet it is emotional. This is the kind of performance I would like to see / hear or simply feel when listening music, this is music made by heart. You can't be good artist when you don't like what you're doing and these guys (and girls) certainly do like their "jobs".

Tarcisio, you're right. I've been listening this album few times before I went to sleep, I've been listening it when I woke up and I'm still listening it. I know this album for few weeks now and I have to say that it haven't lost anything, just gained depth and "weight", because suddenly, it moves.

5(-), only flaws are that sometimes, they repeat certain words in lyrics too often and also first song (intro) is quite slow, even beautiful. I understand that it cannot be fast paced punk single, so in the end, it works quite well. Even it's just intro. Later songs are better.