DWELLERS OF THE DEEP

WOBBLER comes with this 5th album to throw yet another pavement in the prog puddle! 2 sides like in the days of the LP's, 4 songs including two of more than 10 minutes which have their eye on the creation dear to YES, a little KING CRIMSON, GENTLE GIANT or GENESIS, rock dynamism and symphonic drawers from ANGLAGARD and 'ANEKDOTEN and some blood from WHITE WILLOW. 20 years of playing and themes on human emotion, the fight against the mad spirit and the extrapolation proposed on this crazy album, made of sonorous excess, punctuated by the darkness that plagues you and hope , Renaissance phoenix; work performed in the middle of the covid period with obvious musical questions, an outlet for gloom? "By the Banks" offers a bucolic yessian walk with Crimsonian hints towards the end, a fruity title then becoming darker and darker, the sound firmly anchored in vintage and memory. "Five Rooms" with a magnificent symphonic introduction then on a variation of "Yes" from the same group with synths do you want some here, Mellotron, Mini- Moog, Hammond C-3 and harpsichord, incisive guitars; a more concise title, almost an 8 minute hit that goes by very quickly. "Naiad Dreams" for an interlude where folkloric acoustics come to rest the ears of so much musical sound debauchery, a little glockenspiel; yes the 2 previous songs actually had a lot more energy than usual and make this song a progressive island. "Merry Macabre" 19-minute journey into the baroque unknown, progressive title par excellence with a bass as a common thread, a mess of drawers leading onto a sacred, meditative road; a more tortured, dark, complex world, choir voices, varied instrumental digressions, touches of sound painting notes; it's well compartmentalized anyway, no mess flirting between prog rock and symphonic and classicism, even a little Canterbury at times, in short, a sound worked and made fashionable in this year 2020. I do not dissect these 4 more. tracks that will take you to different places depending on your mood, just listen. A meditative, narcissistic, introspective journey into the musical oxymoron with its dazzling blackness and the dark light of the psyche, an album that gives pride of place to uncompromising progressive rock; an album which gives birth to these long developments allowing you to sail according to your soul in distress and to recharge your batteries, this is what you risk exposing yourself to with the latest version of WOBBLER. Surely the best of their discography. Note that all limited editions have an additional poster.