COMA ROSSI

Coma Rossi

Crossover Prog

4.00 | 22 ratings

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Moods and Meditations, Lamentations and Hope

The eerie cover art of Coma Rossi's debut album lured me from the beginning, and the music complements it perfectly. This bewitching album has been my companion in lockdown limbo, and I've enjoyed its otherworldly atmospheres, comforting vocals, and shifting moods during these trying times.

Ethereal, mysterious, and hallucinatory, the music of Coma Rossi is an interesting brew of cinematic soundscapes, soaring vocals, emotive guitar solos, and aggressive riffage. For this debut album, they present eight beautiful but sometimes unsettling meditations on loss, yearning, death, and resignation. Each song is a fever dream exploring uneven terrain, often lapidary in structure, beginning as a typical song, shifting gears, almost ending, shifting gears again. Asian-inflected melodies and sitar-like timbres intermingle with distortion and celestial atmospheres. A spoken word intro, spooky keyboard vista, or delicate acoustic guitar solo will sidestep into something else. Lyrically, the songs take us on journeys through loss and transition as the music provides substantial detours into realms of anger, contemplation, and hope.

This is not a dark album; it is a shimmering reverie that leaves me with a sense of having traveled strange lands, of losing something along the way and returning with something else found. These feelings match my current state of mind in a world gone off the rails. I have lost something, I have found something, and I don't know how it's all going to work out. Sadness and hope can flow from the same source, and Coma Rossi's music suggests that owning these feelings is enough.

This is a strong first effort and works best as an album experience, start to finish. Recommended - quite a bit, actually.

PlanetRodentia2 | 4/5 | 2020-5-27

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