However as someone clever once said: "Give and thou shalt receive". This is an album which takes a fair bit of patience. Track list: The End Of The Winter Lethargy (5:30), Huge Black Hole (3:58), Egoist (5:32), Lunch (6:34), Our Story Is Beginning Now (3:58), Tomorrow Will Change (6:19), Musical Land (4:23), Ocean Of A Little Thoughts (3:45), Swallow The Green Tones (10:34) Overall this is the best ProgMetal album I've yet to hear this year and will easily be sitting within my top 10 at the year end. There are a few sections in the closing where Pete's vocals don't quite hit the mark and the arrangements don't quite flow and combine in the same way. Sensory label so the sleeve design and booklet is of the required standard too. The album is released on the reliable U.S. The Interpreter was mixed and mastered by Rob Aubrey who has of course been the mainstay of the IQ sound for many years. His only failing is that he had to call in drummer Damon Roots! With that in mind he deserves maximum respect for creating such a complex yet easily listenable collection of songs. According to the sleeve notes all songs were written, arranged composed and performed by Mr. The closest I can come to it is Jon Arch especially in the unusual pitch and the way Pete phrases a lot of the lyrical content. There is also a very modern thread of electronica running across this album which I like but which is unusual in ProgMetal bands.Įxtra distinction is achieved through Morton's unusual vocal style. The guitar tone and approach is totally different and the combination of instruments is arranged to give the music here a unique timbre. Now all the reviews I've read of this album so far have lazily said the music sounds like a cross between Dream Theater and Threshold. ProgMetallers Threshold in 2005, Pete has also been slowly developing My Soliloquy's sound and songs through a series of demos and live shows with the likes of Pagans Mind, PowerQuest, Oliver and Rick Wakeman and Threshold. Since taking on the role of guitarist with leading U.K. It would perhaps be to easy to say it has been worth the wait - but having spent several weeks with the eight songs on offer, I have to say that it has.Īlthough describing itself as a band, My Soliloquy is really a channel for the talents of multi-instrumentalist Pete Morten. Tracklist: Ascension Pending (5:47), Flash Point (6:22), Corrosive De-Emphasis (7:05), Fractured (5:14), Six Seconds Grace (7:24), Dream In Extremis (7:14), Inner Circles (7:00), Star (6:00)Įleven years after forming, UK ProgMetal band My Soliloquy has finally got around to releasing its debut album.
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