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░ ██ ██ Artist: Mystery ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Delusion Rain █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2015 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2016-02-08 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Progressive Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Unicorn Digital Inc. ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ The band music has improve a lot since their █
█ debut. This time, they have a new singer, Jean █
█ Pageau. What strikes me at first listening to this █
█ album is the prefect production. The sound is █
█ clear and loud which each instrument bursting in █
█ the speakers. After a Pink Floyd intro, the █
█ self-titled song see the emergence of the acoustic █
█ and electric guitar succeeding each other with █
█ plenty of guitar solos of the master of his █
█ instrument, Michel St-P're. The heavy bass sound █
█ and the overall music remind me of the Neo-Prog █
█ band Pallas, influence that reoccur at some place █
█ throughout this album. In the song "If You see █
█ Her", there is some nice keys/guitar interplay and █
█ the pattern of the first song is repeated. The █
█ epic "The Willow Tree" is the highlight of the cd █
█ with a song that start as a ballad, then shift to █
█ a fast tempo and a long instrumental passage. The █
█ same themes are repeated like the ballad and the █
█ acoustic part, it's a back and forth of acoustic █
█ and electric moments. Before the end, I felt that █
█ some parts were too stretched out. In the last two █
█ songs we have the two opposite moods of the cd, █
█ the Pink Floyd delicate sound and the heavy sound █
█ of Pallas. There's some impressive musicianship █
█ here and the production make it well worth █
█ listening, but nothing new in this style of music █
█ and I always have the same impression after █
█ listening to a Mystery release, the songs are █
█ missing that spark or inspiration that could █
█ elevate the band to the level of the great bands. █
█ █
█ --- █
█ █
█ Before the year finishes, we have the pleasure to █
█ hear this great canadian band through its last █
█ work ¿Delusion Rain¿. A spectacular production by █
█ the lead guitarist Michel St-pere with the new █
█ voice of the group Jean Pageau. A disc of high █
█ inspiration, with outstanding melodies and █
█ instrumental arrangements wich delights us at █
█ every step we listen to the album. The band █
█ display a modern progressive rock of great █
█ quality, with fine moments regarding the melodies █
█ of some songs in contrast with others in wich the █
█ group goes further in an enjoyable and powerfull █
█ instrumental compositions. This band has become █
█ through the years one of the best in the world, █
█ showing a great evolution in its work with this █
█ magnificent album. I am not the one to analyze the █
█ songs one by one: this is your task, to discover █
█ the wonders the piece has itself. This is a █
█ privilege that each listener has and that I should █
█ not take away from you. What I can say, actually, █
█ is that when you leasten to the album you will █
█ touch the sky with your hands. █
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░ 1. Delusion Rain 10:03 ░
░ 2. If You See Her 6:10 ░
░ 3. The Willow Tree 6:46 ░
░ 4. The Last Glass of Wine 19:29 ░
░ 5. Wall Street King 6:39 ░
░ 6. A Song for You 12:36 ░
░ 61:43 ░
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