Friday 20 November 2020

Spock's Beard - Noise Floor (2018)

The 13th album from this US band.

The band was a quartet on this album with a lineup of guitars, bass, keyboards, minimoog, mellotron, piano, synths, organ, programming and vocals.

Guest musicians provides drums, percussion, English horn, cello, violin and viola.

The so far final album from this band.

Nick D'Virgilio is back as a guest musician on drums and percussion. That is the news on this album.

The band's move from pure US symphonic prog to AOR continues on this album.

This fifty minutes long album, a short album being this band, is rather punchy and does not leave much time to deadwood and symphonic prog workouts. 

I would say that sixty percent of this album is more in the vein of AOR and the remainder is still leaning towards US symphonic prog.

This is their least interesting album so far, I am afraid.

The music is still good and the band does most things right. But it is not as interesting as the rest of their albums. Maybe Neal Morses albums is more in the old Spock's Beard style. The style I really like.

This album leaves me slightly cold. But it cannot be faulted in the quality stake.

3 points

 

 

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