What to say
about this CD? Besides the fact that some of the participants are among my
favourite of all times (such as Gavin Harrison from Porcupine Tree on the drums
and a special appearance of Opeth’s singer Mikael Akerfeldt), this album really
seems to be done by people who knows what they are doing and are not afraid to
try new things.
I have
listened to it more than one time, since it is a hard to catch musicality, and
at the end I could not find a link with anything that I have heard in the last
years. They were able to mix several different sorts of influences (sometime
during the listening section I was able to identify similarities with led
zeppelin, stone temple pilots and unfortunately radiohead) with very modern
electronic arrangements.
According
to me, the best song of the album was named after the Swedish capital Stockholm (was that the
reason why Akerfeldt sang it?), but you may try listening to this album from
the beginning until the end because their strength resides on transition songs
and complex rhythm. In other words, if you listen to this album more than once
and always from the beginning you will never get tired of it due to the amazing
balance reached by combining strong performances with slow/experimental songs.
