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REVIEW - Let it Rock - DME
Music Site (www.dmme.net)
"Derelict dirges driving desperation away. Keep
your secrets stashed so well.
However futuristic they might be, most prog rock
bands, the genre's name notwithstanding, cast their collective glances,
stylistics-wise, to the past - too afraid to sound too modern to be
filed under "Prog". This New Jersey quartet, the brainchild of singing
guitarists Patrick and Dan McGowan, are different, they're living in
the intense "here and now" which bares its teeth with the misty, if
desperate, march of "Werevolves" where soft passages instil more fear
than the preceding onslaught. In the multi-layered "Big Al" the band
show their mastery of Frippery but do it with much bile and gusto,
while the sublime "The Moon" puts forward the brothers' vocal harmonies
and the folky undertow, and there's a grandiosity hidden in "Castle
Builder". Still, it's the closing "Ice Clock" their utmost magical
moment which indeed might point to a great future."
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