“Snowfields” starts out the album as a cold and windy day blows in. It’s a beautiful acoustic introduction to the album. “Eloina´s Inn” kicks in and showcases the band’s playing. It’s a heavy rocker with a pounding beat that even goes into a blast beat. This track really separates Ciconia from the aforementioned bands because it’s MUCH proggier than any of those bands [mentioned earlier - ed.] and it still maintains it’s post rock atmosphere.Read the full review by Rob Pociluk at progressivemusicplanet.com
The music style of the album is the mix of art-psychedelic rock, electronics and sympho-electronic experiment.Media/Samples
The songs are complex yet mesmerizing. Chosen moments include "Dementia" a perfect example of what a prog power hit single should be, "Beyond the Darkest Sun" a shiver-inducing instrumental tour-de-force, and the last track called "Remedy of my Heart", an epic 12-minute journey that brings the record to a close in an impressive fashion.Read the full review at metalstorm.net
Lyrically, the album draws bleak comparisons from the poems of T.S. Eliot and Yan Jun; outlining the harshness of the air we breathe from our swiddening neighbours and constructing a landscape of the inevitable, based on the choices that we and our forefathers have made.
Musically, it is an abstraction of the blues in the mode of C, influenced by the power of the riff and the energy of heavy rock music. Expanding upon 'Oscilla' the song, which is also in the key of C and diving deeper into its modal abyss. The music jolts and scares through feedback and an incessant pulse, in the hopes of toppling the apathetic stance that we, for generations, have come to find comfortable and convenient.