MIRROR OF INSANITY

It is probably the Red Sand record most clearly influenced by Marillion of the Fish era. The atmosphere of the entire album, soft and relaxed, with keyboards that accompany us during the journey of its almost 40 minutes lead us to imagine being listening to parts of Script for a Jester's Tear and parts of Misplaced Childhood at times. Simon Caron's guitar shows similarities that at times we cannot differentiate from Rothery's. Not for that reason, the marked influence being evident, Canadians manage to present an excellent album, in which the 3 songs of more than 10 minutes (Blame, Children Memory, and the one that gives the title to the album Mirror of Insanity ) show us a compositional quality that must be among the best of the neoprogressive genre.

We can place very clear reminiscences in the middle and towards the end of the songs Children Memory and Mirrow of Insanity, Bitter Suite / Heart of Lothian, and in the song that closes the album (Cradle) a clear influence of the end of Heart of Lothian . Additionally we find in Cradle the use of acoustic guitars in its beginnings, something that marks a variation regarding the influence of Marillion.

Mirror of Insanity is an excellent debut album by Red Sand, and I consider it the highest of their discography, and who they also represent as more than worthy representatives of the genre.