I introduced you only a few months ago to the Australians of 'Teramaze' with the album 'Sorella Minore' and its little brother didn't even take the time of a 9-month gestation since, as they used to say a few decades ago, 'And the Beauty They Perceive' is now in the bins of your best record stores which shows that the various periods of confinement continue to offer us releases in shambles at this end of the year 2021 (hard to keep track of everything! !). With this new baby of the Australians, it is not a concept album but a set of 9 songs that go from 4 minutes to more than 11 minutes for the longest for a big hour of listening that passes very quickly because it is not because they make in the quantity that the quality is less.
The eponymous title of the album (see video above) welcomes us with energy and shows all the writing talent in very accessible progressive and a first chorus that runs through your head and with a remarkable instrumental aside in the second part, then, 'Jackie Seth' (see video here) is refreshing and more 80s oriented with good melodic rock that approaches the binary rhythm of disco, and 'Untide' (see video here) is the album's first big moment with catchy melody lines that you wish would never end and an addictive rhythmic pattern, with 'Dean Wells' singing a pure delight throughout. After this very successful opener, we're taken on board the lengthy development 'Modern Living Space' (see video here) which combines inventive progressive with accessible melodic lines and leaves plenty of room for original instrumental parts marked by changes in intensity, with 'Dean Wells' gracing us with beautiful guitar solos, then, 'Blood of Fools' continues in this vein with new memorable melodic lines, the rhythmic guitar riffs bringing in the metal side and the vocals of 'Dean Wells' softening the whole. We move away from the progressive with the beautiful melancholic ballad 'Waves' which allows a welcome break before returning to an energetic track with 'Son Rise' which develops an increasingly fast rhythm section, then 'Search for the Unimaginable', after a muscular introduction, unfolds a new memorable melody with beautiful alternations of intensity. And to finish in beauty, 'Head of the King' is a remarkable progressive fresco in several drawers which requires to linger to draw all the richness of it.
In summary, the Australians of 'Teramaze' gratify us with a remarkable album that combines an inventive progressive metal with catchy melodic lines which destines 'And the Beauty They Perceive' to a rather large progressive audience because, apart from a few compositions, the whole remains very accessible from the first listening... | |
