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Label: Isosceles records
Tracks:
- A Damp Preserve (2:33)
- The Fly-Man And The Snake (5:21)
- Finders Keepers (6:19)
- Hush (4:22)
- The Engine Roars (2:06)
- Tribes (5:50)
- Playground Politics (6:33)
- Mia's Game (3:33)
- Misha Superhero (8:32)
- Island Of The Misfit Toys (7:01)
- Behind The Front (5:52)
- Channels (3:17)
- Safe (4:29)
- Soil (2:38)
Musicians:
- Zod / guitars
- Andre Neitzel / bass
- Matthew Still / vocals, keyboards
- Chris Wallace / drums, percussion
It seems that there are news of this American band again, after some time
without any. In fact, this "Island of the Misfit Toys", an album that
actually is the second part of a trilogy, was released more than 4 years
ago. After surfing their official website, it seems the new album might
be ready soon. I suppose, it'll be the third part of the trilogy.
It's a shame that these guys are taking so much to record new material,
because Timothy Pure is a band to take into account. Especially, the
Porcupine Tree or Pink Floyd fans, that are not few, I think should give
this band an opportunity as soon as possible.
Timothy Pure plays, at least in this album, the only one I could have
listened of the group up to date, a music close to Porcupine Tree. A sort of
pinkfloydish prog, with space atmospheres, no structural complications, some
Gothic rock touch, and some references to other bands like Eloy, Moody
Blues, Anathema or Marillion.
It is a pleasure, as also happens with the music from Porcupine Tree or Pink
Floyd, to dive in those clean and distant keyboard atmospheres, that Timothy
Pure are able to create, and that are the basic ingredient in the recipe of
the band's sound. The tracks where the band offers their most space-prog
vein are fascinating. I refer specially to "Misha Superhero", "Island Of The
Misfit Toys", and the instrumental "Channels", which I have no doubt will
like to fans of recent year's prog. Among the rest of the pieces, also more
direct and melodic songs can be found, with a very good composition level,
always under the enigmatic and dense vein that the symph-goth-space
keyboards are capable of create.
Finishing. Their previous album "Blood of the Berry", the first one of the
trilogy, was even more acclaimed by the critique than this one. Maybe
someday I'll find it.
Rating: 7.5/10
Ferran Lizana
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