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"Fish (ex marillion) has succeeded with talent in renewing himself and offering us an album that is exceptional from the first to the last track."
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The former singer of Marillion produces with "Raingod With Zippos" an album that stands out from his previous productions. Usually located in a groovy and rather dry progressive register, the style of "Raingod" contrasts with a very pronounced neo-progressive aspect, taking off particularly in the middle of the album.
Indeed, the album can be divided into two distinct parts. The first, from the first to the sixth track, is a series of compositions that have no connection with each other.
Musically in a rock style rather close to what Fish was able to do before, they nevertheless present a better fluidity. There is no complexity here. The melodies have the free field to make the lyrics live in the listener's imagination. The ballad "Incomplete", highly emotional, sung in duet with a female voice, is a perfect example.
The second part, without swearing from the rest of the album, presents a divergent content. It groups all the tracks from the sixth under the name of "Plague of Ghosts". The style is definitely less conventional and will happily flirt with the neo-progressive genre.
The atmospheres are much more worked with exclusively synthetic tracks. The usual choruses/couplets are set aside to propose a kind of mini concept-album, with all the peculiarities inherent to this kind of exercise: here a mixture of tracks with a bare and synthetic content and rock tracks indulging in the immense pleasure of slowly increasing in power. Moreover, all transitions are smooth and reinforce the impression of listening to only one track.
"Raingod With Zippos" is for me one of the best albums of the last 20 years. Fish has succeeded with talent in renewing himself and offering us an album that is exceptional from the first to the last track. Don't miss this rare pearl.... - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Tumbledown - 5:52
02. Mission Statement - 4:00
03. Incomplete - 3:44
04. Tilted Cross - 4:19
05. Faithhealer - 5:01
06. Rites Of Passage - 7:42
07. Old Haunts - 3:13
08. Digging Deep - 6:49
09. Chocolate Frogs - 4:04
10. Waving At Stars - 3:12
11. Raingods Dancing - 4:16
12. Wake-Up Call - 3:32
LINEUP:
Dave Stewart: Batterie
Fish: Chant
Mickey Simmonds: Claviers
Steve Vantiss: Basse
Steve Wilson: Guitares
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