Messenger "Illusory Blues"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Prog Folk
Label: Svart Records
Release date: March 28, 2014 (March 31st in the UK)
Tracklist: 

1. The Return - 5:57  
2. Piscean Tide - 5:17  
3. Dear Departure - 7:54  
4. The Perpetual Glow of the Setting Sun - 5:56 
5. Midnight - 8:53  
6. Somniloquist - 5:15  
7. Let the Light In - 6:12

Line-up: 
Khaled Lowe: Guitars, Vocals
Barnaby Maddick: Guitars, Vocals
Jaime Gomez Arellano: Drums, Percussion
Dan Knight: Guitars, Keyboards
James Leach: Bass

Description/Reviews: 

 Illusory Blues: a cosmic ode to the forces of nature and the inevitable cycle of life. To cite musical influences would be futile. The musicians had made their names with bands in scenes as far apart as hardcore punk, black metal, and ambient music. Tonally, one might recall finding oneself in the same "space" occupied by other architects of sound such as Ulver, The Beatles, Swans, or Pink Floyd. But the stream of sound that emanates from the source of Illusory Blues is a heaving mass of organic richness, brimmed with intricate sounds that acknowledge the original fathers of experimentation but look forward in creating something new and unique. They dwell equally in the earthly realm of folk music and in the celestial void of progressive psychedelia, but have chanced upon a sound and an experience that sounds like no other.

Also read the reviews by Phil Weller at planetmosh.com and by Ade Furniss at strangethingsarehappening.com

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