The 'Salva' project is already 17 years old and the Swedes led by 'Per Malmbreg' have just released a new studio recording 'A Thousand Ways to Disappear' after 'Sigh of Boreas' in 2016 and 'Off the Deep End' in 2018 which had both been well received by critics. With this last baby, they continue to distill progressive between rock and hard-rock bringing us back to the 70s with accessible melodic lines. On the menu, the album contains 7 tracks including 4 long developments alternating with 3 shorter compositions for a total of 54 minutes.
'Stars Aligned' opens the ball with an energetic opening part that unfolds a melody that immediately engages in the head reminiscent of hard-rock from the 70s, the choirs bringing a remarkable vocal richness, then 'Feeding The Flame 'with its swaying rhythm could be a mix between' Led Zeppelin 'and' Deep-Purple 'with instrumental parts in which the keyboards sounds take us back decades. With 'A New God', we hold one of the most varied titles of the opus with, first of all, remarkable vocal arrangements, the progressive side being more highlighted with more extensive instrumental sections including beautiful variations of intensity and tempos while having melodic lines which are easily encrusted in the head. The album continues with 'Wonder's Rebirth' in the same spirit as the whole with a new catchy melody then the major track of the album 'Coma' offers us a long development of almost 14 minutes which contains all the ingredients of 'a rich and varied progressive alternating beautiful sung parts and well-supplied instrumental sections, the whole remaining very accessible. The last two tracks end the album in a calmer atmosphere with, first of all, a semi-acoustic ballad with 'Elegy', very classic but extremely effective then a new long development 'The Strong, Silent Type' which unfolds a new attractive melody highlighting the quality of the vocal arrangements.
In summary, the Swedes of 'Slava' continue their way by offering us a quality album very pleasant to listen to thanks to melodic lines always very accessible and quality vocal arrangements which should destine 'A Thousand Ways to Disappear' has a fairly large audience that likes to mix rock and hard-rock in a progressive that can be tamed at first listen... | |
