A FINE DAY TO EXIT

This was the first Anathema album I bought and it also was the one album that turned me into an Anathema fan.

Since I only knew the "Forgotten Hopes" song that is available on this site, I did not really knew what to expect from this band, but I gave it a shot in the record store and I immediately loved it. The album is so varied; I thought openingtrack Pressure had some weird Coldplay resemblances, whereas my favourite track on this album, Release had a twist of Porcupine Tree and even trip-hop in it. The songs on the album are nicely balanced between the more softer and the more heavier songs. Yes it is not all so quiet and gentle.. but there is a natural vibe of progression when listening to the whole album. The songs themselves progress from quiet beginnings to heavy outings, most notably in the song Looking outside inside. This song starts very mellow but halfway through the old metal origins of the band shine through.

The nicest thing about the variety of moods in this albums is that it all does not feel forced to listen to. I think this album has appeal to both the lovers of metal as well as mainstream rock.

As a last remark, it is worth to mention the addition of a female singer on some tracks, she and Danny perform an haunting, but bit depressing, ballad called Barriers.

To conclude this review I can only say that this is one of the finest albums around in the progressive metal scene: no standout musicians on this album (no real soloing of instruments I mean by that), it is just a brilliant BAND offer!

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