Cowboy Junkies - Ghosts - Album Review

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https://nomoreworkhorse.com/2020/04/08/cowboy-junkies-ghosts-album-reviews/

Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V-VI – Album Review

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https://nomoreworkhorse.com/2020/03/30/nine-inch-nails-ghosts-v-vi-album-review/

Seamus O’Muineachain – City of Lakes – Album Review

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https://nomoreworkhorse.com/2019/06/28/seamus-omuineachain-city-of-lakes-album-review/

The Amazing - Gentle Stream

The Amazing released their third album in 2011.  It's a highly melodic, proggy mess of a thing, full of well played instruments and soft vocals.  The title track feels a little like Led Zeppelin's softer moments mixed with Neil Young.  Flashlight follows, at once folkier with rolling acoustic guitars and woodwind.  The very soft-rock International Hair is naggingly catchy without being especially memorable.  The somewhat overblown six and a half minute Dogs attempts a rockier feel but doesn't quite pull it off.  The band sound better on closing track When The Colours Change, a relatively uncomplicated song, with female backing vocals and electric guitar fills rounding out the sound.  Some versions contain the 'bonus' track Ghosts, a simpler acoustic track that harks back to the Red House Painters.

It's kind of a glorious failure of an album, full of ambition and complicated songs.  They would refine this formula after this.