EXOTIC CREATURES AND A STOLEN DREAM

Sunchild

Crossover Prog

4.16 | 85 ratings

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Sometimes, lists of musicians related to your favorite bands include some that you listen to but don't quite connect with. And you try, but you don't succeed.

Fortunately, when they are musicians with a musical universe as varied as Antony Kalugin's, sometimes it's just a matter of time before there is a song, an album that serves as a key to enter that musical universe. And then, from that moment on, you adapt to his way of making music, and you end up enjoying other previous works with which you had not been able to click.

For me, the key to Kalugin's universe has been "Exotic Creatures and a Stolen Dream". I remember listening to the Northern Skies single for the first time and falling completely in love with the song. I liked everything about it, from the melodic progressive rock it proposes to the combination of a soft male voice and a powerful female one. Then, the second preview of the album arrived and I had no choice but to pre-order it.

And once I have finally been able to listen to it in its entirety, with the two main songs more developed, I can only say that I think it is a wonderful album, and that it has been a golden brooch for 2022. It is a melodic album, made with very good taste and able to put in a single song very good variations that make them very enjoyable. Really, for me it is one of the best albums of last year.

And the best of all is not that, the best of all is that this album is now helping me to enjoy Kalugin's music much more, and it is possibly only the first of several of his works on my CD shelf. I know this album has just been released, but I'm already looking forward to hearing what he's going to release next, as I continue to explore his discography.

Yubal | 5/5 | 2023-1-13

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