LIONGEIST – Departure

The new ep from the Norwegian alternative hardcore whatever else band is a huge work of intricate detail, beauty and hooks with a serious progressive edge. It reminds me of the Christian outfit Hopesfall but it retains its own identity, though the fact that my thoughts easily drift toward my deeply held beliefs as if on cue, as if it were a soundtrack for them, plays to the strength of this material as much as Opeth’s "Deliverance" played its lyrical fabric in your head as you listened. Overwhelming feeling of composure and gladness with a touch of sorrow guides the complex rhythms and melodies in a delicate play of light and dark and by the time "Winter" is over you are already thinking of "Infrared Echoes". Tighten up the songwriting and the full length could really shine like a god among insects.

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