When Riverside released their seventh album, Wasteland, in 2018, they did so under a veil of mourning. The Polish band’s first proper release since guitarist and founding member Piotr Grudziński died two years earlier, Wasteland was their darkest album to that point. Its central concept of survivors trying to stay alive in a wrecked, desolate post-apocalyptic world was a thinly veiled allegory for the band’s own loss. The sense of hollowness that shrouded Wasteland reflected a band still wrestling with bereavement as they embarked on a journey towards healing.
Almost five years later, this follow-up suggests they’re somewhere near their destination. ID.Entity is the antithesis of its predecessor. From the instant a smattering of 80s-dappled keyboards fizz into life on opener Friend Or Foe, it’s bathed in a brightness that…
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Prog (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 136