Phideaux – Number 7

Releasedate: 21-06-2009; Label: Bloodfish
By: Lara Cappelli

As the title says, Number 7 is the seventh album of the American band Phideaux. This band is composed by a group of friends who conceived their music at the base of many music influences, from Jethro Tull to Alice Cooper, to create a kind of Neo-Progressive Rock.

The album strikes enough as it has an unusual structure. Actually, the way the band chose to structure the album is surely more stunning than the songs themselves. You have such many influences on the songs that judging them individually hardly makes any sense. All the different instruments used, from saxophone to cellos, are quite suggestive and if you manage to go into the atmosphere they create, then you’ll surely appreciate it. The entwine of the male and female’s voices blended with the constant change of melodies makes the listening even more protean.

Something which may disorient a bit is that the album is very uniform, insomuch as it seems a unique song, and you can’t really point out a particular melody of it, at least after the first listening. But that is something which didn’t bother me that much, as it’s like Number 7 is a story which is fluently told. Therefore, seeing the whole picture on a general way, instead of analysing the single parts of it, makes it easier to understand the story told throw the music.

Links:
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