Slowly swirling keyboards initiate the opener "Off With Their Heads", and the listener starts soon to ask if it is in "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", although the harmonic structure is there already a markedly different. After 1:40 min anyhow heard a surprising, formally out of nowhere coming key change, the guitar cuts and we find ourselves in a slightly rauhbeinigeren version of crazy diamond again to drum up shortly before 2 minutes Paddi and Tim Jones his guitar too Riffs begins to elicit, which is a kind of melodic rock unravels, the still ongoing seven minutes and a basic theme repeatedly varied more or less discreetly, so you have to listen closely to perceive the development and not disable bored after a short time. Singing there is no and the other songs on the self-titled debut album Stella Polaris also not apart from "Givin 'It Large" where bassist The Reverend Rabbit sometimes reaches for (slightly distorted) microphone. Who previously read name familiar to who is right: As should be also made clear already above with reference to the label indication, it concerns with Stella Polaris again a band project from the Stone Premonitions family, so with "the usual suspects" which together can be found again and again in new constellations, but also maintained good. Stella Polaris in any case are apparently new, people again are not, except for drummer Kevin Thompson, whose name at least the reviewers in this environment so far said nothing and except for "Off With Their Heads" all other songs of abundant 55minütigen disc has been drumming, unless it because needed his services, which is not consistently the case: In spherical instrumental "Ephadream" about requiring Jones and keyboardist Dave Hendry its services not. Since no individual composers are given, but the BEEN each active trio (without the bass player) is identified as the copyright, it could be in the nature Recorded improvisations, which were then extended by only a few extra votes - but also the variant of a classic songwriting is possible, especially since Hendry must have its effect box definitely already well stocked and well structured. In most songs in any case dominate his keyboards, but also Jones plays quite an important role. The overall picture is then quite complex, even if behind the entire material can already see one and the same handwriting and this also as the home of Stone Premonitions is easily recognizable to arise. But just "Off With Their Heads", well yes created quite dramatically by title, can certainly cross references to Asia early John Payne era, ie essentially "Aqua", or even the late Emerson Lake & Palmer, So the largely underestimated "Black Moon" time to, just without vocals. As a large fixed point of creation are however adamant Pink Floyd in the room that are not true copies of Stella Polaris, but important orientation gave, with Stella Polaris yes concentrate only on one of their creative aspects and then make something completely different, which is Gilmour, Waters & Co. would have never dared - in "Retroglide" as they play pure hard rock with double-barreled lead guitar, which, given the band constellation definitely could not have come as improvisation recording and kinship rather finds in other Seventies formations, such as Thin Lizzy or even at Wishbone Ash. But the Floyd-orientation dominates in total already, and a pretty Stone Premonitions internal reference gets the listener in the end still: The Albumcloser called "We're All Egyptians Now" and reminds the connoisseur of course immediately to "We're All Americans Now "by also belonging to the family Body Full Of Stars (found on the" Welcome "- album). Who has both songs can make in search of musical cross-references, who has only the Stella Polaris debut, must be at least worry whether it was called here an allusion to what Weiland euphemistically "Arab Spring" and long a disillusionment has given way, there. After all, "Stella Polaris" has already been recorded in 2011. Thus provides some food for thought (also nice: "Liberation Squared") in addition to its own, the more likely to make you smile, as long as there should hide any innuendo behind it that can not decrypt the reviewer ("So What If They've Got Tea In Denmark Shirts "as an example). In any case, for Stone Premonitions collectors also this album typically enough to safely incorporate its own collection, but in principle should also every Pink Floyd trailer yes gnawing in terms of new releases of his heroes on hunger cloth, sometimes risk an ear.
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