Frost*
Falling Satellites

Last time I went through my list and threw away albums I thought was too old to bother with anymore I found this one that I for some reason had missed. I just could not throw away an album that features one of my musical Heroes, John Mitchell that is. He and Jem Godfrey are the two that has been in the band from the beginning, a band that is really the creation of Godfrey. This is the third album; their first one called Milliontown (that I have not heard) was very highly regarded so one could expect something exciting from this one as well. It has a maze on the cover, a maze that is much less of a challange than the music on this album.

Impressive production, impressive creativity, I would describe this album as rather impressive. It has more or less everything, you can say that something are similar to Frost* but they do not really sound like anything else I have heard. It is progressive rock that is really progressive, forward thinking music that breaks new ground and falls outside conventional frames – like progressive music is really all about, and what it unfortunately very rarely is.

Excellent performances and production, it is much of what you really want from a progressive album. I think this can be described as one of the highlights of the year so far; it may be a slightly challenging to get into and may require a few plays before it really comes to life. But there are things that stand out from the first play like Towerblock and the lovely poppy ballad Lights Out that immediately stand out. One would think that Falling Satellites would be a bad thing but if they sound this brilliant when falling, let Earth and mankind be damned as this is a great soundtrack to the end of the world – or a new beginning perhaps. What if an actual progressive album like this could set a new standard for how progressive rock band should approach their music, it would be a great future for this genre, we need more guys like Godfrey and Mitchell.

I find this album very appealing as you might have deduced already, it is definitely a top ten album of 2016 and one of only a handful that deserve a rating higher than five. And I would say that this might be the best album that Mitchell has participated on and, as you may know he has been performing on some real kickass albums. I will not pick a favourite song as they are all great and this album is fantastic, so bring on the satellites and let mankind be damned to the sound of some real progressive rock music.

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