LE VER DANS LE FRUIT

Nemo have had a great run of albums from at least Si Partie Part I, and Le Ver Dans le Fruit finds them taking their sound to the next level. Blessed with a lineup which has remained remarkably consistent (aside from their first album), here the band benefit from their lushest production yet, which in particular teases out the subtleties of Guillaume Fontaine's performance on keyboards.

Though this is a double album, each of the two discs have just over 40 minutes of music on, so it's more comparable to a double album of the vinyl era and avoids being one of those prog double CDs where the band crams both discs with as much material as possible simply for the sake of producing a very long album. Taste and care is shown within each composition too, with none of the pieces here - even epics like the 17 minute closing number Arma Diania - outstaying its welcome. Crammed with enchanting moments which seize the listener's attention, this album is perhaps Nemo's greatest achievement.