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Gandalf's Fist - A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer CD (album) cover

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A UNIVERSAL WANDERER

Gandalf's Fist

 

Neo-Prog

3.92 | 144 ratings

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franklogan1956
5 stars I recently discovered this band via Twitter due to their excellent name!! I discovered that their up-coming album featured collaborations from Troy Donockley from Nightwish, John & Clive from Arena and even the singer from gryphon... so i'd thought i'd check out this album what I fink was released last year.

After a couple of spins I have to say this is right up my street! Swirling space rock with a heavy, sometimes almost NWOBHM twist.

There are some truly 'catchy' choruses on here - which is a welcome suprise on any prog record! My favourite track though is the closing number 'wanderer goes south' which has a brilliant female vocal & after skimming through the production blog for the new record I understand this vocalist will feature more heavily on the next one - Fine by Me - great voice!

My only criticism was that the narration was hard to understand in some of the tracks and I really didn't follow the 'story' - which didn't really phase me that much - it only features fleetingly and i tend to just skip that track.

More of the same please - looking forward to the new one but maybe they might think about a ditching the narrator!

F x

9.5/10

franklogan1956 | 5/5 |

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