Launched by means of: White Knight Information
Unencumber Date: Out Now!!!
Style: Prog Rock/Rock
Hyperlinks: https://whiteknightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/iv
Line Up:
Phil Stuckey – Lead Vocals
Ade Fisher – Lead Guitars
Paul McNally – Keyboards
Adam Sayers – Drums & Percussion
Phil Morey – Bass
Tracklist:
1. Shadows & Moonbeams
2. Silently Ready
3. Lifeline
4. Liberty
5. Fragile
6. The Time of Your Existence
7. JFKX
8. Fly (on feathers of hope)
9. SkiesFall
We reviewed a few of their previous albums, however someplace alongside the way in which I should have ignored their earlier album 3, Days Of Innocence from 2022, however once opener Shadows & Moonbeams of STUCKFISH’s new album IV blasts during the audio system, it’s transparent that we’re dealing right here with a excellent top magnificence skilled band.
STUCKFISH had been based by means of singer/songwriter PHILIP STUCKLEY and guitarist/composer/manufacturer ADRIAN FISHER again in 2017, and in the meantime, IV is their 4th album and I’ve to confess that it sounds moderately sensational in a most commonly conventional melodic British ‘fairly 80s/90s’ oriented neo-progressive taste with influences of AOR, Symphonic Rock and a marginally of theatrical pomprock, kinda like MAGNUM and ASIA, which will also be heard proper from the outlet track Shadows & Moonbeams.
This track has robust melodies and a moderately catchy AORish refrain, however nonetheless packed in a British Neo-Modern environment. Silently Ready heads extra right into a natural Neo-Modern Rock course, whilst we will listen improbable vocals by means of Phil follows right through the stunning Lifetime, on which he even rings a bell in my memory of DENNIS DEYOUNG (ex-STYX), so that is in reality prime-time vintage Pomprock that is analogous to TOUCH, CATS IN SPACE and STYX after all! Through the way in which, but even so the stunning vocals of Phil and superb guitarwork of Adrian, the opposite individuals within the band are keyboardplayer PAUL MCNALLY, drummer ADAM SAYERS and bassist PHIL MOREY. In combination they’ve recorded an improbable album right here that doesn’t appear to include any fillers, as a result of but even so the sooner discussed songs, different highlights come with the midtempo AORish Fragile, The Time Of Your Existence (natural DENNIS DEYOUNG ish ballad), and the implausible uptempo melodic rocker Simply For Kicks (sounding nearly like an 80s SCORPIONS ish music, but with a fab proggy 80 keyboardsolo).
Don’t omit this sensational liberate, particularly for those who’re extra into the melodic aspect of prog, as a result of as a rule it’s in reality dangerously as regards to natural 80s AOR/Pomprock/Sympo Melodic Rock!
Written by means of: Gabor Kleinbloesem
Scores: Gabor 9/10
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