Artist : Argos

Album : Unidentified Dying Objects

Release Date : 20-07-2018

Added : 12-10-2018

'Argos' is a German band whose first album 'Argos' dates from 2009 and 'Unidentified Dying Objects' is their 5th album. They draw their influences from the progressive music of the 60s and 70s, blending jazz rock, pop and progressive rock, and they have known for the last 10 years how to forge their own style because one could quote very heterogeneous references like 'Jethro Tull ', the 'Beatles', 'Focus' or 'David Bowie'. The first title 'The Hunter's Last Sand' is the perfect illustration with 7 very varied minutes alternating instrumental passages where guitar, keyboards and flute share the space, and parts sung with refined vocal harmonies. Follows 'Parade of Unpainted Dreams' tinted ‘Beatles’, then 'Beneath the Valley of Sleep' flirts with jazz rock as 'The Days of Perky Pat' and 'Shockeaded Peter', we return to the pop of 1960s, while the quasi-instrumental ‘Still Fighting Gravity’ takes us back to the progressive bands of the 60s. But the major title of the album is without contest 'When the Tides Comes In' which with its 7 parts, embarks us for almost 19 minutes in a progressive journey where it is good to get lost in the many nooks and crannies and where the electric and classical instruments offer very nice exchanges. In summary, over the years, the Germans of ‘Argos' continue to enchant us with this style so personal and, even if they risk being limited to an informed public, 'Unidentified Dying Objects', anchored in the 70s, is still an album of great quality and is recommended to all fans of a varied and imaginative progressive music...

Line Up / Musicians

Thilo Brauss (Keybords, Melodica, Violin), Thomas Klarmann (Bass, Flute, Clavier, Guitar, Vocal), Robert Gozon (Vocal, Keybords, Guitar), Ulf Jacobs (Drums, Vocal), Enrico Florczak (Guitar, Vocal) + Guests : Andy Tillison (Keybords), Linus Kåse ‘Saxophone), Marek Arnold (Clarinette, Saxophone), Johannes Steinbronn (Trumpet)