LESOIR

JOHNNY SHARP

Push Back The Horizon V2 Dutch pomp-proggers set their sights on bigger things. Having made a determined step further into traditional prog territory with 2022’s single-track, 20-minute concept mini-album Babel, Lesoir are perhaps keen to prevent any such labels sticking to them on Push Back The Horizon. The Maastricht five-piece’s sixth album aims much more squarely for the arena rock jugular from the outset. They clearly mean business as they’ve enlisted seasoned Oasis and Robert Plant producer John Cornfield as well as longtime Muse associate Paul Reeve to work on this record, and it surely helps Under The Stars accelerate into a highoctane, wind-in-the-hair singalong, with Maartje Meessen’s plaintive tones sometimes taking on the timbre of an Annie Haslam or Maddy Prior, while the title track and Fireflies have a…

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