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This Fading Time

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This album is really excellent vintage sounding progrock. They have a hard rock edge that's a bit more classic than metal sounding, and the right kind of rough edge production that makes you appreciate them as prog rock. Naylor's voice really is on as far as I'm concerned, and the guitar and drum work is as good as it gets in prog. The lyrics are Christian, but Mike Tenenbaum (primary writer) has since left the faith. I think you can hear hints of his growing disappointment with Christianity in this album. It ain't preachy. Anyway, for a real and honest down to earth progrock album, it gets no better. I highly recommend this album.

This, Akacia's third album, shows that nothing has changed. Mike Tenenbaum's guitar playing is excellent as is Doug Meadows drumming and Steve Stortz Bass. Trish Lee is fine on the keys. The problem is still the vocals. They just aren't very good. Eric Naylor's voice doesn't fit the music and at times he even gets slighty off key or flat. The writing is superb, but the vocals seem to take away from what the music wants to be.

Akacia offers up a solid collection of retro music on their third release. By no means perfect, but solid.

With a soundscape solid based in 70's music, and with touches of jazz, psychedelic rock, early hard rock and symphonic rock being thrown together on this release, the end result is rather original sounding. And of high quality as well.

But as the mix above will cater to a rather selected audience; this isn't a release that will go down in history - the potential sales here are just too limited I'm afraid.

Still it's clearly worthwhile checking out for the curious, as there are quite a few nice tracks on this release.