Album: A Broken Truce (2013)
Genre: Prog Rock (Crossover Prog) / Sweden
Listening to Violent Silence's new album A Broken Truce is like a trip down the memory lane of the early Phil Collins Era of Genesis...without Phil. It is like hearing those wonderful keyboards from Trick of the Tail, Duke, and Wind and Wuthering, set to different melodies. Hannes Ljunghall and Björn Westén's keyboards and piano will take you back to the glory days of Tony Banks from the opener "Prism Path" through to the title track, "A Broken Truce". Each track is over 10 minutes long, so do not feel cheated that there are only four tracks. Every minute of the tracks are full of excellent melody and dynamic keys. Martin Ahlquist's vocals take some time to appreciate, and he is definitely not like Phil Collins. But he has a good voice which does not detract from the expert musicianship surrounding him. The stories are deep and the lyrics interesting. Johan Hedman's drums, and Anders Lindskog's bass are fantastic complements to the music; but this is a keyboards – based band…make no mistake about it. And I love the keyboards. So it is easy for me to highly recommend this Uppsala, Sweden band's third full length album. Violent Silence has previously released Kinetic, in 2005, and their debut, Violent Silence, in 2003. So if you miss those classic keyboards from the 70s, plug in A Broken Truce and listen to the memories come flowing back...set to new melodies. "Excellent keys…I can hear them now. Yes this is the picture". Review by "Mark Johnson" (www.seaoftranquility.org).
RATING: 8.25 / 10
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Genre: Prog Rock (Crossover Prog) / Sweden
Listening to Violent Silence's new album A Broken Truce is like a trip down the memory lane of the early Phil Collins Era of Genesis...without Phil. It is like hearing those wonderful keyboards from Trick of the Tail, Duke, and Wind and Wuthering, set to different melodies. Hannes Ljunghall and Björn Westén's keyboards and piano will take you back to the glory days of Tony Banks from the opener "Prism Path" through to the title track, "A Broken Truce". Each track is over 10 minutes long, so do not feel cheated that there are only four tracks. Every minute of the tracks are full of excellent melody and dynamic keys. Martin Ahlquist's vocals take some time to appreciate, and he is definitely not like Phil Collins. But he has a good voice which does not detract from the expert musicianship surrounding him. The stories are deep and the lyrics interesting. Johan Hedman's drums, and Anders Lindskog's bass are fantastic complements to the music; but this is a keyboards – based band…make no mistake about it. And I love the keyboards. So it is easy for me to highly recommend this Uppsala, Sweden band's third full length album. Violent Silence has previously released Kinetic, in 2005, and their debut, Violent Silence, in 2003. So if you miss those classic keyboards from the 70s, plug in A Broken Truce and listen to the memories come flowing back...set to new melodies. "Excellent keys…I can hear them now. Yes this is the picture". Review by "Mark Johnson" (www.seaoftranquility.org).
RATING: 8.25 / 10
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