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With 2003sImpossible Figures, Magellan remain one of the mostdied-in-the-wool and compelling prog rock bands. Given theirembrace of technology — endless layers of keyboards and drummachines — and their insistence of the rock side of prog with bigchurning guitars and fat, muddy basslines, they are an anomaly.While they are a truly original act, their roots lie somewherebetween Volume IV-period Black Sabbath, King Crimsons Larks Tonguesin Aspic and Starless and Bible Black, and Genesis Lamb Lies Downon Broadway. There is so much bombast in their music — includingthe tympani sound from 2001: A Space Odyssey — that helps tointroduce the albums opener, Gorilla With Pitchfork. But never hasa band put this kind of symphonic rock excess to such fine use.When Killer of Hope commences with its distorted vocals and blazingpower chords caught in riff battle with a wall of keyboards, allbets are off. There isn’t anything previous about Magellan’s use ofvolume and overdrive. Lyrically, their themes are of the classichuman condition and the irony of living in the 21st century. Thereare spiritual battles, emotional conflicts, sexual ambiguities,levels of battle with darkness, and more, all of it dealt withexpertly and passionately. And that is the other difference betweenMagellan and their contemporaries: there is no academic distancebetween their compositions and their performance of them. Irony isblack and biting, romance is lush and sincere, and struggle isparamount — it is not detached. There is true high conceptualism onImpossible Figures, but that is for the listener to discover,because to write about it here would only be pretentious. This isan amazing record, and one that will challenge and delight anyonewho encounters it with an open mind.

Tracklisting:
1. Gorilla With A Pitchfork
2. Killer Of Hope
3. Bach 16
4. Late For Church
5. Confessors Overture
6. Hymn For A Heathen
7. A World Groove
8. Counterpoints
9. Feel The Cross
10. Hallucination

Condition cover: nm

Condition cd: nm

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