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DARK MATTER

IQ

 

Neo-Prog

4.06 | 1025 ratings

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EMinkovitch
3 stars This is a very good and solid album, and deserves a 3.5. IQ make a strong effort to break away from Neo-Prog, and it shows. The album almost sounds like a progressive album, it certainly has many of the elements of the progressive sound down pat, if you can ignore that fact that some of the progressive nuances and layered textures are missing. Good album? Yes. So why am I not so impressed? I noted that after listening to it, I was left without any impression or image, good or bad - as if nothing was retained. I thought that I did not listen attentively, and gave it another spin - still the same results. So that's what's wrong with it, it does not add anything original or unique, and rather recycles old ideas. Unless you are an IQ fan, (in which case you will certainly go crazy over this album) save your bucks for the Flower Kings, Glass Hammer, After Crying or Anglagard - if you are looking for originality.
EMinkovitch | 3/5 |

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