Search - North Star :: Tempest

Good work in comparison to their insipid previous works

Lethe | Milan, Italy | 11/12/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Well here you will find good bass-guitar lines, a pretty support of the keyboards and a sitar as well...This album is less clone than their previous ones,early Genesis oriented, and more original as well than the majority of the english new prog of the 80/90's, but by comparing this work to the american prog jewels, like the masterpiece Myrthrandir "For you the old women" and then(even if these following ones are a bit inferior than the Myrthreandir jewel):Pentwater"Out of the abyss",Yezda Urfa "Sacred Baboon",the best work by Babylon and Cathedral "Stained Glass stories", this recent last work by North Star doesn't stand in the same place...however here you will find the mellow parts but also those ones more guitar-driven.
It's not a winner for the originality but quite interesting and the cover art as well."