Beardfish (prog rock) - Sleeping in traffic, pt . 1 (full album) 2007

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Having made their major debut with their third album in six years, the "not yet famous" Beardfish pour all their love for 70s prog into this "Sleeping in Traffic: Part One", giving irrefutable proof of the vitality of a genre still far from extinction.
The first notes of the dreamy and visionary "Sunrise" are enough to account for the talent of the Swedish band, unequivocally raised at the "court" of the Crimson King.
It is undoubtedly to the figures of Fripp and associates that the Beardfish refer most frequently, especially as regards the more calm and intoxicating sections, but ultimately the whole seventies scene is taken as a model, with a (predictable) special attention for England and Italy.
Alongside explicit references to Gabriel's Genesis ("Dark Poet"), there are winking references to the Canterbury sound of the Soft Machine, to the vital eclecticism of Zappa or to the refined aesthetics of Banco.
So songs like the visionary "The Ungodly Slob", the rocking "And Never Know" and the magnificent suite "Roulette" show off a pleasantly wide and well-calibrated range of influences.
There are even sporadic nods to Led Zeppelin's blues poetics, which can be caught creeping cautiously between the notes of the melancholy "Without You".
In "Sleeping in Traffic" there isn't an authentic search for the new and the original, but rather a reworking of traditional models according to modern and personal schemes: the Beardfish in fact aim decisively on the quality of the compositions, scoring point after point every take.
It's not just the masterpieces that confirm the vitality of a musical genre: it's also the records that, without the pretension of upsetting an era, know how to interpret the lessons of the masters with class and personality that constitute the fundamental background for infusing sap into the most tall of the whole plant.
Albums like "Sleeping in Traffic: Part One" demonstrate how it's still possible to revive the historic progressive tradition without sounding worn out or stale.
Sleeping In Traffic: Part One" must be listened to and savored slowly and repeatedly, so that it slowly enters the blood so that it can conquer you; if you are a lover of Genesis, Gentle Giant and Spock's Beard this album will surely be for you, since you will find warm and dreamy atmosphere!

00:00 ... on the verge of sanity
00:47 Sunrise
08:42 Afternoon conversation
12:24 And never know
18:23 Roulette
30:30 Dark poet
33:55 Harmony
41:16 The ungodly slob
47:58 Year of the knife
55:27 Without you
58:06 Same old song (Sunset)

Rikard Sjöblom - vocals, left speaker guitar, keyboard, accordion, acoustic guitar, percussion
David Zackrisson - right speaker guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
Robert Hansen - bass
Magnus Östgren - drums, percussion and screaming

[rockwillneverdie]

tracklist 👇
00:00 ... on the verge of sanity
00:47 Sunrise
08:42 Afternoon conversation
12:24 And never know
18:23 Roulette
30:30 Dark poet
33:55 Harmony
41:16 The ungodly slob
47:58 Year of the knife
55:27 Without you
58:06 Same old song (Sunset)

[edwardcumpstey]

As a fan of Echolyn, and practically a whole lot of prog rock, I have to say that Beardfish are supurb!