Spacey despair served with impressive melodies.
With a fresh line-up behind him, Dawnwalker leader Mark Norgate takes the group in intriguing new directions on his band’s sixth album. Centred on the concept of a search for belonging in an unknowable universe, the music is appropriately more spacious and spacey, yet with a pop-leaning edge.
Capricorn adds a nagging electric piano figure and killer chorus to its template of echoing vastness and slabs of guitar, while Heaven And Earth is an affectingly desolate ballad, with the kind of cavernous wistfulness that evokes early King Crimson’s more introspective moments. Mirrorpool, meanwhile, takes things in a more ambient direction, with Norgate and co-vocalist Sofia Sourianou surrounded by spectral flutes and stately touches of the baroque. The closing pair of Fall To Earth and…
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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 155