THE CRUELLEST MONTH

Sol Invictus

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Prog Folk

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Studio Album, released in 2011

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Raining in April (2:33)
2. To Kill All Kings (4:50)
3. The Sailor's Aria (1:37)
4. Fool's Ship (4:24)
5. Toys (3:23)
6. Edward (5:36)
7. The Bad Luck Bird (4:14)
8. April Rain (5:33)
9. Cruel Lincoln (7:59)
10. Something's Coming (4:10)
11. Stella Maris (3:28)
12. The Cruellest Month (5:47)
13. The Blackleg Miner (3:23)

Total Time 56:57

Line-up / Musicians

- Tony Wakeford / acoustic 6-string guitar, twelve-string guitar, keyboards, loops, double bass, vocals
- Ren�e Rosen / violin
- Andrew King / vocals, glockenspiel, drums
- Caroline Jago / bass
- Guy Harries / flute, recorder, penny whistle
- Jeremy Perl / cello
- Joanne Owen / accordion
- Yariv Malka / 12-string guitar, drums & percussion, hammered dulcimer, psaltery, synthesizer, electronics

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Review by kenethlevine
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog-Folk Team

Given the hitherto unprecedented gap following SOL INVICTUS' 2005 release "The Devil's Steed", one may well despair at the offering that marked its end, this poorly conceived, sung, produced, and arranged vertiginous calamity that would have sunk a less established band. Excuses could be advanced such as that Wakeford might have been preoccupied with the imminent re-release of a couple of his solo albums as band recordings, and thought to return to more of the post punk sound that preceded classics like "In the Rain", but his voice is more dire than ever and his ramblings of limited coherence and relevance. Two fireflies rejecting each others' advances could generate a bigger spark than Wakeford does here, forget the fire.

Even the occasional whistles seem superimposed cartoonishly over the concrete galoshes stubbornly worn throughout. Only "Toys" seems to know what to do with the swirling bits circling the drain, incorporating a circus rhythm that is what Wakeford should have picked in the first place. The two following numbers do stretch to and more or less reach the rating of distinctly average, and the instrumental "April Rain" is slightly better, but this should hardly impel you to experience "The Cruellest Month" here any more than on the calendar.

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