Voices • how many times • oh god how long • the seasons change but it’s the same • and tears will await • I’m not afraid • as voices scream and play the game • how many miles • oh god how long • those voices speak inside my head • they enter my mind • from somewhere outside • I’ll hit the road • no turning back • how long will it stay the pain • the seasons change • but it’s the same • no sense of time • I must be strong • I cannot think • I can’t go on • how many crimes • oh god how wrong • so many lies behind closed doors • where is the heart to even ask why • let light behold in bitter times • somehow I’ll try to find my way back home • my soul is troubled • I am not alone
With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Highly productive cooperation of two Italian avantgarde masters: Paolo "Ske" Botta ("Ske") and Francesco Zago ("Yūgen", "Empty Days", "The Night Watch"). Also on board are Gabriele Guidi Colombi (bass) and Alessio Calandriello (vocals), both of them regular members of "La coscienza di Zeno", as well as Martino Malacrida, who contributed the drums on "Eros & Thanatos" by "Syndone". So this is kind of a "supergroup", which is usually not a good sign... but it's an excellent supergroup this time. A dense and dark atmosphere covers the songs on this debut album, which provide plenty of ingenious counterpoints, and sometimes get quite close to avantgarde fields. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Well, I wouldn't say that the music of "Section IV" defies genres... in my opionion, it belongs to the neo-prog genre without any doubt. But on the other hand, there's nothing wrong with that. The important thing is that the band contributes great new work to the genre, helping to keep it alive. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)