Métal Intégral - Review / MOSTLY AUTUMN

Cold autumn ...

Approximate translation of the review

Since 1998 with the release of his first album For All We Shared .., MOSTLY AUTUMN is not clear based on its ferns ( "symbol" that we find on the first three albums) during these ten years. With eight studio albums (including one inspired by the Lord of the Rings), its dvd (three or four, I do too much more to follow ... the wallet either!) And its compilation, the band at Bryan JOSH and FINDLAY Heather is in intensive culture! What is not, let's, for many fans to dislike the group gathered under its control since his birth.

If the early albums (For All We Shared .. (1998) The Spirit Of Autumn Past (1999) and The Last Bright Light (2001)) we walk in nature with these themes and sound effects since Passenger (2003) MOSTLY AUTUMN has made a slight turn and is more Rock, gradually abandoning the Celtic side that was his personal seal.
Glass Shadows therefore logically follows Passenger, Storms Over Still Water (2005) and Heart Full Of Sky (2007). We find some (beautiful) melodies, after all, less flamboyant than titles like Porcupine Rain, Heroes Never Die or fabulous The Gap Is Too Wide the first two albums. The guitars Bryan JOSH more than never think of PINK FLOYD, even if the "abuse" under his long solos over the compositions. Too bad for me! The keyboards are also less colorful: it lacks the genius and the leg I ainJENNINGS, absent on this album. The rhythm is heavy, especially at the battery. A little more light would not have wasted. Troy DONOCKLEY and uilleann pipes and whistles is only short appearances unfortunately. Like the flute Anne-Marie HELDER, the instrument most widely used on previous albums and maintained by Angela GORDON. Liam Davison, the second guitarist (rhythm) of the group, is also absent for subscribers on this album. And since then as Storms Over Still Water, the cover is ... an ugly indécrottable! You may say, rightly, that the content is more important than the container. Of course, but still! But while

left there toGlass Shadows, darker in the soul? Some strands (heather) of inspiration, like over 11 minutes of Shadows Glass, , which is approaching a Mother Nature for Album of 2001, the voice still sublime of our beloved Heather FINDLAY (Paper Angels, The Blue Above) and some engaging melodies titles (The Second Hand, Flowers for Guns, Terring At The Faerytale) with a few solos (hallelujah!) guitar Mr. Josh. Unfortunately too few for me from a cult dedicated to the English group. I therefore shudder retournerai in listening for the umpteenth time the first 2 productions, hoping for a quick and early return to the sources of Landes English (with the original line up and the return home of Iain ).

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