The Englishman 'Rhys Marsch' continues his solo career by releasing his 3rd album 'October After All'. He marries the melancholy song with some progressive touches and multiple influences ranging from jazz, to more contemporary sounds to pop through the ages. Listening to the first track 'River' puts us in the general mood of the album with an effective melody and a fairly conventional structure verse/chorus and 'Long Way Back' that follows brings a jazzy side with the interventions of a saxophone and of a trumpet. 'Golden Lullaby' continues in this airy and delicate style and 'Ride The New Wave' pursues in this direction but varies in intensity due to bring to the forefront of keyboards layers. The suite offers the semi-acoustic ballad 'The Butterflies', 'Let It Be Known!' bringing a heavier sound with beautiful vocal harmonies, 'One Hundred Memories' returning to a refined atmosphere with its slow tempo, then 'The Summer Days' is cheerful at first part and darker in the middle of the title while '22' we brings back to a melancholy melody where we find again the trumpet that accentuates the atmospheric aspect, the album ending with the 7 minutes of '(It Will Be) October After All' which slowly unfolds an air melody embellished on the end by a languishing saxophone. In summary, if you like quiet and melancholic moods with slow tempos, this latest album 'Rhys March' is for you and is to listento in a quietly place to unwind from an exhausting day... | |
