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This and one other review here:Sometimes an album leaves you bamboozled, and you need to play it again and again until you figure it out.
The first several songs on are nice '70s inspired prog with vocals that will appeal to some – but others might find them a bit strained, and the melodies a bit contrived.
But there's a huge contrast toward the end of the record, and it closes out with "Bones And Money", a really wonderful 15-minute epic that embraces everything that we like about symphonic progressive music. It starts with an elegant piano piece whose first few bars resemble Cat Stevens's "Morning Has Broken". There's an uncomfortable tempo-shift into harder rock – but don't worry. All of the subsequent shifts are smooth and you'll easily be swept with the ebb and flow and the constantly developing themes and the emotion that drives this song. Think of a more melodic, harder-edged version of Echolyn's Mei.
The contrast is not in the style or sound or mood – it is one of quality and complexity. The first several tracks are good. But the purchase price of Feel. Melt. Release. Escape. is easily justified on that final track alone.
Reviewer: Duncan Glenday
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