ALBUM REVIEW: Silent Skies – Dormant


 

There is a beauty in simplicity. An elegance in thought and form pervades Silent SkiesDormant (Napalm Records). Where life is bombastic and loud and aggressive, Tom S Englund and Vikram Shankar provide respite. Harkening back to the singer-songwriter genre of the seventies, Englund and Shankar create a landscape of the sublime. Dormant is a beautiful flight through light and love.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Redemption – I Am the Storm


 

To say that Redemption’s I Am The Storm (AFM Records) is chock full of technically proficient playing and complex yet inviting compositions would be an understatement. There is no question that Nick van Dyk is a master of his craft. I Am The Storm just cements that fact.

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