FROST – Milliontown

Cover	Release	Style
	2006-07-24	Progressive music
	Label
	InsideOut Music / SPV
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	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	59:07	IOMCD 252, SPV 79092
	Review by	Rating
	Danny	8,5/10
nederlands	Review
Milliontown is an album loaded with surprises. The first surprise is Jem Godfrey (Keyboards, Vocals), who founded this band. He isn’t unknown in the musical world because he already co-composed and co-produced for names like Atomic Kitten, Blue, Ronan Keating, Lulu and Samantha Mumba, but he’s new in the progressive rock world. The next surprise is the band he managed to get together. John Mitchell (Arena, The Urbane, Kino) on guitar, John Jowitt (IQ) on bass and Andy Edwards (IQ) behind the drums are excellent musicians to record your first record with. But the most important surprise is the music. Progressive rock of the highest quality, but with a modern touch. Jem didn’t use any vintage keyboard beeps and sweeps and strings, but a lot of newer sounds, which makes this album very different and refreshing. As he said in his interview, this is rather progressive music rather than progressive rock. John Mitchell is playing better than ever, making this album even balancing on the edge of progressive rock and progmetal. John’s influence is clearly present, because this album often sounds a bit like Kino, especially the second track “No Me No You”. The opening track “Hyperventilate”, the best track of the album, is an explosion of piano, keyboard and guitar riffs, which leaves no moment to take a break, but what would you expect with such a title. ;-) And Jem may claim to prefer progressive music above progressive rock, the 26 minutes of the last track are loaded with progressive rock elements and rhythm changes. Every progressive rockfan will love this one. A great debut of a man who wanted to play real music after writing pop music for a few years. I just hope he won’t be disappointed by the money he earns with this kind of music. Because it would be a pity if he changes back to his “simple” compositions.
Musicians
Jem Godfrey - Keyboards, Vocals John Mitchell - Guitar, Vocals John Jowitt - Bass Andy Edwards - Drums Guest: John Boyes - Guitar
Tracklist
1. Hyperventilate 07:31 2. No Me No You 06:06 3. Snowman 03:55 4. The Other Me 04:51 5. Black Light Machine 10:06 6. Milliontown 26:35


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