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Fluxury is another new band from The Netherlands, well, new, they
already exist since the year 2000.
Some bands are hardly able to find a vocalist, but Fluxury found
three good female singers, what a (f)luxury.
Although they have a sound of their own, there are a lot of
influences to discover in their songs. The music makes me think of
Gentle Giant and the combination of the music with the vocals sounds
a lot like Renaissance.
The production could have been better, but maybe this will change on
the full album that will be released later this year. It takes a
while to get to know the tracks, but once you get used to them,
there are some great pieces on this EP. Especially the instrumental
parts are of a high quality. “Me, The Enemy” opens with such a
delicious instrumental piece and is full of variation. Excellent
progressive music with lovely quieter parts, but I don’t
particularly like the vocal lines. Although Marjolein is a great
singer, she seems to have a bit of trouble with the difficult vocal
melody and this isn’t the only track on this EP with the same
problem. The three female singers all have great voices, but I
prefer the performance by Patricia Beerens on “After the
Revolution”, a beautiful ballad.
The problem with the vocal lines remains during “Nothing’s safe”,
especially the performance of Jos seems to suffer with that problem.
Maybe he’s a good singer, but on this track he doesn’t perform at
his best. Although I have to admire the band in trying some
unconventional singing in stead of the vocal lines that everyone
would expect and everybody could sing along right away.
“Light of Other Days” is my favourite of this EP. What an awesome
instrumental start, with some great guitar and keyboard playing. If
all their tracks were of this epic quality, their coming album
“Perishable Goods” would be superb. |
