HEARTSCORE

German venture HEARTSCORE is the creative vehicle of German composer and musician Dirk Radloff, and for the past 15 years he has released music under this moniker at regular intervals. Six studio albums have been made available so far, and 2016's self-titled "Heartscore" is the most recent of these, a production that was issued through German label Indigoteam.

The long ongoing German studio project Heartscore has stepped up the quality ladder with the sixth album "Heartscore". A production that shies away from all genre conventions, and explore a wide palette of music mainly inside the progressive rock realm. The use of poems as lyrics gives the music in general and the vocals in particular a special and peculiar vibe that won't have a broad reach I suspect. But for those who enjoy the powerful, strong vocals delivered in the manner they are here, set to material that has a subtle avant approach to multiple subsection of progressive rock, this is the kind of album that might well reappear in those people's forgotten jewels list of music later on. If music based on and around poetry in general sounds appealing, and a wide variety of subtly avant-oriented progressive rock sounds like a good setting for that to you, this is an album worth checking out.