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"Bigelf comes back with "Into The Maelstrom", an excellent production with a technique at the service of melodies and groove."
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4/5
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Bigelf is a Californian band led by the talented Damon Fox who has been in the band since 1996. With 'In The Malstrom' the band is releasing its fourth album which corresponds to an arrival at Inside Out. This release, the first one since four long years, also corresponds to the arrival of a certain Mike Portnoy behind the drums.
Between pop, rock, metal, psychedelic, stoner, this new opus could very well have been recorded and conceived in 1970 with a current level and quality of production. Everything exudes the old sounds of the time: roaring bass, vocals with a reverb effect microphone, a Hammond organ famous for having faithfully followed completely psychedelic bands of the 70's and guitars with constantly renewed sounds. Bigelf is the equivalent of a Transatlantic which would have bathed in the psychedelic and the hard rock of the 70's. Finally, how can we not mention the pleasure of finding a more tempered and wise Mike Portnoy behind his drums, having abandoned technique in favor of feeling.
With authenticity and without deception, the combo plays a magical music inspired by a multitude of references. The wisdom and experience of Damon Fox and his team allow them to smartly integrate touches of Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, and so many others without shouting plagiarism. It's hard to describe each track as the gnosis between the period resonances, the bewitching melodies, the psychedelic atmosphere, are in total euphony (the dictionary is your best friend). From complex and psychedelic tracks like "Incredible Time Machine" and "Hypersleep" to others more easily accessible with heady refrains like The Beatles in "Already Gone" or "Alien Frequency", each track brings its stone to the edifice, a track like "ITM" being the perfect synthesis of what the band is able to offer.
With this new gift, Bigelf comes back with a concrete production, a hyper-calibrated and inspired technique at the service of the melodies and the groove. Never boring, the band knows how to vary the pleasures and the rhythms to deliver us an album to own imperatively, especially for the nostalgic of the 70's. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Incredible Time Machine
02. Hypersleep
03. Already Gone
04. Alien Frequency
05. The Professor & The Madman
06. Mr. Harry McQuhae
07. Vertigod
08. Control Freak
09. High
10. Edge Of Oblivion
11. Theater Of Dreams
12. ITM
LINEUP:
Ace Mark: Guitares
Damon Fox: Chant / Claviers
Duffy Snowhill: Basse
Mike Portnoy: Batterie
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