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Water Sphere

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So, this band...Pilotdrift, is an amazing band with a new amazing album. This album makes me shiver with delight. It features an eclectic mix of mellow, low-key music, to exciting, loud, maniacal laughter-filled music. Sometimes in the same song. This music would be perfect in a movie, although sounds little like soundtrack music. The lyrics are picturesque and very imaginitive. They tell stories of the future of travel, Shackleton's adventure to Antartica(?), and Jekyll and Hyde. (to name a few)

Also, you haven't seen the full picture until you see Pilotdrift live. It's the best live show ever. All the energy you feel on the album, is right there in front of you in person(or people, whatever)

Great Band.Great Album.

GODBLESS

-Nicholas

The power of music has possibly never been captured and wielded as mightily as it now is under the control of Pilotdrift. They are the sound of substance, quality, art and intelligence. Their self released "Iter Facere" was gobbled up quickly, so do not delay with "Water Sphere." Then check out www.pilotdrift.com and make sure you see them live. It isn't a concert; it is a masterful experience!

"Water Sphere" is a journey through emotion and imagination, across time, history, and literature. In the "Jekyll & Hyde Suite" the well known story is brought to life as we experience with Jekyll the confusing loss of control to the wicked Hyde, and then celebrate his victorious redemption. As the album draws to the end, the beauty of their work moves beyond curious to overwhelming in "Rings of Symbols" and "So Long." There are no words; you MUST experience it for yourself!

Great piece of work from beginning to end. It seems so long since I got an album that I can listen all the way through and this is it. From the opening track Caught In My Trap to the ending track "So Long", Water Sphere is just awesome. What else can I say. Get this album and rediscover the art of music instead of the art of making a buck.

I've been listening to Pilotdrift even back before they released this cd, back when they released thier indy cd. This cd made me so happy, the music is so experimental and cool. This isn't your everyday album, it's much more, much different. The album starts with a scary but awesome piece of music that would fit right into a Tim Burton movie, the album progresses and every song changes and morphs into something new! Pilotdrift seem like a band who can't quite keep to one style of music, they want to make many different kinds. The final song is a wake up call from the rest of the album, it's a sum up of everything, brings you back on earth and then shoots you back up in space with an insane drumming session of sorts. You feel confused, but happy and satisfied, and you want to listen to it again to make sure you really heard what you heard. This album is for people who like different music, people who want something new, don't buy it expecting you're going to get the next pop-rock hit release, cause you won't. This is an album that took time, dediction, and guts to make, and it should be appriciated.

Pilotdrift is one of those rare bands who, when you hear them for the first time, your reaction will be "What the ---- was THAT?" And then you buy their album, listen to it from start to finish over and over, and you're still asking, "What the ---- was that?"

It would be too hard to try to describe them with the musical jigsaw puzzle method--i.e. "Imagine Radiohead crossed with..." so I won't bother The fact is, this album has a little bit of everything in it. Certainly there are aspects of it that remind me a bit of Radiohead circa Kid A, but at different points in the album I am reminded of such diverse things as "Girl from Impanema" and (during one of Pilotdrift's more upbeat songs) some of the bands on the Arts & Crafts label such as The Most Serene Republic. The songs clearly have a strong classical influence as well.

This is a progressive band, no doubt about it, so those who are looking for the kind of drivel they play on Top 40 radio might want to pass on Pilotdrift. But if you're the type who would like to expand his/her conception of what music can be but is sick of buying "progressive" albums that sound like a litter of kittens being fed into a wood chipper, give Pilotdrift a try. You won't regret it.

This is one incredibly awesome, out of left-field, album. It is time for Pilotdrift to get more exposure - the melodies on "Water Sphere" would put The Secret Machines to shame. This is truly tripped-out rock with the right balance on most tracks. I don't find the album to be "perfect," but the songs that work, work better than 99.9% of other progressive music out there. Standouts for me include "Passenger Seat," "Bubble Craft," and "Comets." I've also grown to love the opening track - it verges on over-the-top, but works for this group, and it lets you know where you're headed. Enjoy.

I bought Iter Facere after reading some local buzz about Pilotdrift. That buzz and the band's birthplace set me up to be totally off my guard for the amazing music I heard. Three of these tracks appear on this "major label debut." Personally, I prefer Iter Facere, but if you can't get that, enjoy the hell out Water Spheres.

Simply no other words to describe it; these boys have a sound all their own and that sound is most excellent. If you have the chance to see them live please do so; you won't regret it.

This band out of East Texas has a prog-influenced sound that would probably appeal to fans of groups like A Perfect Circle and Coheed & Cambria. Listening to the opening "Caught in My Trap" or the epic "Jekyll & Hyde Suite," you might think you're listening to Queen collaborating with Danny Elfman on an imaginary Tim Burton soundtrack, while the swinging lounge vibe of "Bubblecraft" sounds a bit like Radiohead covering a tune from Jane Fonda's sci-fi classic "Barbarella." If musical schizophrenia isn't your bag, Pilotdrift might not find their way into heavy rotation on your iTunes playlist, as drum 'n' bass beats ("Passenger Seat"), Asian-influenced psychedelia ("Late Night in a Wax Museum") and hypnotic trance-rock ("Rings of Symbols") all have their place in Pilotdrift's wonderfully warped sonic universe. But for us ADD-afflicted audio addicts who love to be kept on our toes by musical magicians with a bevy of tricks up their sleeves, this trippy signing from Polyphonic Spree frontman Tim DeLaughter's Good Records label offers an endlessly inventive fix.

This is a freaking awesome record. Picture Radiohead getting together with Arcade Fire and recording the indie version of the Bohemian Rhapsody. This is a beautiful record. Strongly recommended.