After 4 EPs since 2008, year of their formation, it was only 12 long years later that the Swiss of 'Marhold' decided to release a first LP of a fairly long format since the opus contains 56 minutes mixing rock and metal in a progressive style with a front woman who, in addition to offering us great vocal performances also plays violin which makes that this album is quite unique in this genre.
All starts with an instrumental title with some piano and violin notes which introduce the musical theme of the first track 'Homemade' which, after a powerful start, gives way to the violin and then to the singing of 'Alexandra Poraszka' in a progressive atmosphere with a title made of several drawers which alternate energetic and calm passages, then, 'Our Mind', which was the subject of a remarkable artistic video (see above) is more classic rock without real progressive component and 'Hymenoptera' deploys a catchy symphonic instrumental in which the violin twirls. In three titles, we already have a fairly extensive panel of this formation and what follows reserves us other surprises with 'Whirls In The Sky' and the instrumental 'Intervention' which are only one title with first , a mixture of rock and progressive hard-rock that reminds of formations like 'Halestorm' with an additional progressive component, then, the instrumental which changes of register by taking over the musical theme but in an exotic atmosphere and where the violin of 'Alexandra Poraszka' enchants us once again. The following continues in this melting pot between rock and metal with a powerful 'Icy Sun' with its heady refrain, the energetic 'Power of Nature' which flirts with industrial metal, 'Break Out' between ballad and mid-tempo, 'Trapped' and its slow tempo in a tormented atmosphere close to doom style, the magnificent ballad 'The Always Spinning Wheel', with a delicate first part, opposite to the previous titles, and which rises slightly in power for a very beautiful final , the album ending with the catchy 'World Crashing Down' with beautiful melodic lines that settle easily in our head.
In summary, this album of the Swiss of 'Marhold' shows all the talent of this formation which knew how to tame quite different styles which makes of 'A Homemade World' a very varied opus which should please a loving public mix rock, hard-rock and metal, all this sprinkled with a pinch of progressive... | |
