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Carol Of Harvest has returned again after a very long break. This album is the first of many albums, if everything goes according to the plans outlined in the Carol Of Harvest interview. I am sure this will please a lot of people.

Carol Of Harvest has not changed much from the two albums. If you love the first album, you will probably love this album too. This time, the lyrics has been written in English and then translated and sung in Polish. That's a first, to my knowledge.

The ethereal beautiful vocals of Ewa Grams dominates this album. Music wise, this album is a mix of folk rock and unfortunate, electronic pop. The programmed drums is pretty annoying at times and a big mistake by Carol Of Harvest. The addition of the other instruments in addition to the acoustic guitars is a good choice, on the other hand. I wish Carol Of Harvest had relied more on their main strength and not on trying to become more commercial. The electronic pop stuff seems a bit too desperate commercial. In today's music business, this does not wash.

Song wise, the material is good, but nothing more. There is no outstanding tracks, but there is no real weak tracks too. If you really are into ethereal female vocals based albums, you will rate this album far higher than I do. But this album could had been a lot better if Carol Of Harvest had put it closer to folk rock instead of going of into all other places. I still think this is a good album and I welcome Carol Of Harvest back again. I am sure we will hear a lot more from them in the future.

3 stars