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IC B. (icberry)
Reviewed on 2/16/2017...

"Award-winning group and Australia's premier pagan folk-rock band Spiral Dance have announced the release of their latest album "The Quickening". After the success of "Notes of Being" the band used many of the same ingredients to produce the recording; David Lokan at Big Sound Studios in Adelaide engineered it, Adrian Cowell again did the artwork and though the whole band had a hand in production, it was Nick Carter that was responsible for sculpting the sound of the entire project.
The album itself features 14 tracks, the first eight forming a song cycle of the sabbats that make up the Wheel of the Year in the Celtic calendar. The song for the festival of Imbolc called "The Quickening" became the title track for the album as it conveyed a positive energy associated with fertility and the spark of new life that reveals the coming of Spring."

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"…the maturity in playing and arrangements has noticeably progressed, as has the willingness to add different textures to the music…the title track 'The Quickening' is a perfect example of the thought put into arrangement and production on this album, and is a mature, melodic and powerful piece of music…there is plenty of light and shade throughout the CD…this is still distinctively Spiral Dance but with more of an edge and it is all the better for it…"

Michael Hunter, dB Magazine (#385; May 2006)