Album Title: Cantus Firmus
Artist: Advent
Nationality: American
Year: 2006
Subgenre: Uber-Prog
Familiarity: None
Favourite Track(s): "Remembering when"
Why? Nice dissonant harmonies in the acoustic guitar with pleasant pentatonic structures in the electric lead guitar and good variety, yet continuity between progressions.
Least Favourite Track(s): "Alison Waits"
Why? Vocals ruin it
End Impression: A lot of it seemed kind of like generic prog, like every other prog album I've heard, especially the flutes and the staccato strings, like in Ramblin Sailor, but the vocals are very plain in timbre and the vocal style is annoying. I hear the style in a lot of prog and it's one of the things that limits my prog appreciation.
Comments: Remembering when was surprisingly good compared to the rest of the album. Not just because of the lack of vocals, but the use of harmony and melody was really quite unique, whereas the rest of the album had a lot of that folky stuff that I really only let Jethro Tull get away with I guess. Maybe that's unfair, but I heard Jethro first!
Rating: 3.5