Take everything big about epic length jazz suites and soundtracky modern classical, jam it into a rough rock format without shedding any instrumentation nor adding any vocals and end up with something that manages to not quite be prog. Its an advanced platypus rock maneuver.
Most of the time its a bit by the numbers: horns and strings play classical washes, bass and drums play jazz, guitars play some rock solos or funk jiggerjacks over top, see what falls out. Sometimes its beautiful, and the individual tones and moods are inspired, and that drum and bass is just sick, but too often those big classical surges drown out the details, and create a pall of sameness over the album's run. I admire the ambition more than the execution; a little less beak and this thing could have soared 3.5/5
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