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LOVER'S END

Moon Safari

 

Symphonic Prog

3.88 | 457 ratings

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snobb
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2 stars Excellent vocals harmonies! This band openly learned much from Brian Wilson and Crosby,Stills and Nash! Golden, almost classic melodies, sweet multi layered vocals over electro-pop,scented slightly by symphonic rock.

After first album's listening, it was quite difficult for me just to describe this music. Pop- rock,based on West Coast tradition from late 60-s? But musical part is almost pure electronics. OK, there are very simplistic drums and some guitar sounds, in part acoustic.

Surf-pop for 21 century? Again, almost in every composition you can find some ,often very small, but existing symphonic pop-rock arrangements. OK, not the genre's tag is matter.

Music is catchy and very different from you can usually expect from band, having some relations with progressive rock. And even more - Swedish band, not Italian, what wouldn't be so strange.

Possibly, it's not easy to evaluate such release looking from progressive rock fan's point of view. I am sure this is not my cup of tea, but for everyone interested in this album, I can describe it as extremely melodic multi layered vocals and vintage keyboards based electro-pop with elements of symphonic prog (characteristic for some modern RPI bands). For sure, they listened to synth-pop later Yes albums and bands like Gazpacho.

Not sure who could be really attracted by this release. Really quite original pop album, it is less progressive than Steely Dan or Supertramp. Most real listener is probably Gazpacho fan (with no allergy to old fashioned vocals harmonies from late 60-s).

I am happy I borrowed this album, didn't buy it! Not really so bad, but looks too much out of place on prog rock site.

snobb | 2/5 |

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