Riverside – Reality Dream (2008) – Review by Logan Lee

What to say about Riverside? For me they are one of the most pleasant surprises on the Prog scenario and their first official Live album (Reality Dream) has come to show us that not only Riverside is a very technical Band but also able to perform amazingly in front of the audience (and lets face it, this feature is getting rarer on modern bands).

I had no problem writing this review, because lately Riverside is always on my portable players (in fact Reality Dream was among these CDs) and all my job (oh how I wish this was my permanent job lol) was press play and remind the tracks. Riverside has made me gone mad, because after hearing this album I got very sad because I’ve lost their live performance right here in Rome…But lets walk by that grrrrrrr. The first part is more powerful musically speaking and set a great atmosphere for the rest of the concert. Their tracks are very technical and don’t lack to show some quite interesting features of each musician. The first time I have heard Riverside I spoke to myself (and to some other few) that these guys could be called porcupine tree and dream theatre heritage; of course they are not like these two bands but if you listen (specially on this amazing live album) focused on their styles you might understand why I think that, since they’ve managed to put together features of these two bands adding something of their own. Fantastic band, great future ahead…Vote 9 for this album.

Track listing Disc 1

1. The Same River - 11:31

2. Out Of Myself - 03:39

3. Volte-Face - 08:47

4. Rainbow Box - 03:36

5. Panic Room - 04:09

6. I Turned You Down - 05:05

7. Reality Dream III - 04:57

8. The Curtain Falls - 09:38

Disc 2

9. Parasomnia - 07:45

10. Second Life Syndrome - 16:13

11. Back To The River - 06:15

12. Conceiving You - 03:39

13. Before - 06:08 14. Ultimate Trip - 13:46

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