Rage lapses into resignation, builds into swelling hope, and leaves us with a sense of acceptance that is both dazzling and devastating at once.
Category: Albums
Kamelot: Haven
While Haven has the same unmistakable drive and bombast of the band’s previous offerings, it simply lacks the vital ear-worm factor that sucked me into Kamelot’s world in the first place.
Apocalyptica: Shadowmaker
I have a long-held fascination with the cello. Sometimes lethargic and lugubrious, sometimes raw and furious, the instrument yields a human and harrowing range of sounds – it has its own voice.
Pain of Salvation: Road Salt 2
A raw and enchanting album, following on from Road Salt One with a similar stripped-back sound that belies the progressive complexities of its arrangement.
Stornoway: Tales from Terra Firma
Stornoway channel a feeling of real intellectualism, courtesy of Brian Briggs’ poetry and John Ouin’s complex arrangements, into something resoundingly accessible.