Finally, Łukasz Gall took over the microphone at Millenium. He will have left his position on only one album of a particularly dense career for the band (thirteen albums in 18 years), a career that established Millenium as one of the spearheads of the Polish progressive school (Collage, Satellite, Moonrise).
And from this school, Millenium kept the codes: "The Web" remains comfortably in a typically Polish style, a neo-prog with floydian guitars and mellow synths, extremely melodic and therefore easy to approach. No surprise to be expected in this new production which confines itself to what it can do. The keyboards form the base of the Millenium sound and deliver some cozy solo interventions (nice aerial passage in the style of Rick Wright on 'The Lonely Ship') allowing beautiful guitaristic overtures: the worrying floating passages with the featured guitar are the most successful ('Loser', 'In the Ocean of the Night' - difficult to remain insensitive -, the beginning of the third part of 'The Web' which sounds particularly well).
The tracks have all the qualities and flaws of neo prog: nice melodies, quality of the arrangements and pre-eminence of instrumental developments, much more interesting than the vocal parts, which although impeccably sung by Łukasz Gall appear more common, in a nearly pop register. All in all, the album is a bit too wise to be definitely catchy, the tracks following an interchangeable scheme (two refrain verses, an instrumental section mostly delivering a keyboard intervention that passes the baton to the guitar - surprise, it's the opposite in 'Someone's Feet Will Cover the Traces'!). A word about Krzysztof Wyrwa's beautiful, inventive and sometimes groovy bass work ('The Lonely Ship').
"The Web" is typically the neo-prog album that can be put in all hands (or between all ears): not a bad taste! It's also typically the album a bit too classical that will leave the lovers of originality on the side of the road...