Thursday, 1 August 2013

XENIT AT MUSOSCRIBE


Zenit – The Chandrasekhar Limit
Yeah, this kinda thing is my favorite kind of progressive rock. Lots of shade and light, shimmering acoustic guitars, ambitious melodies, clear singing. Long, sweeping compositions – the shortest track here is under three minutes, but three of them run twelve, seventeen and 24 minutes long – allow plenty of space to go in a number of musical and lyrical directions. Musical points of reference include Peter Gabriel-era Genesis as well as some more modern artists. Some welcome space-rock influences in “Awaken” call to mind Animals-era Pink Floyd; that’s a style of music well worth exploring. Elsewhere there are hints of jazz, tropicalia and world music, but Zenit never sound like a bunch of dilettantes when they travel to these other styles. “PiGreco” serves up dizzying time-signature fiddling, but weds it to a hard-rocking lead guitar passage. The Chandrasekhar Limit is a nice mix of classic and modern.


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