STCBM046: Burn The Ground

Tonight’s Sounds That Can Be Made playlist:

PreHistoric Animals - Burn the Ground (from Burn the Ground)
The Tirith - Song of All Ages (from Tales From the Tower)
Airbag - Killer (from Disconnected)
TILT - Bloodline (from Hinterland)
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light (from SMPTe)
Tom Slatter - The Beast of the Air (from Ironbark 2016 expanded edition)
Nosound - Wherever You Are (from Afterthoughts)
Frost* - Black Light Machine (from Milliontown)

The Eighties at 8:
The Police - Invisible Sun (from Ghost in the Machine)
Tears For Fears - Woman in Chains (from The Seeds of Love)

cosmograf - Plastic Men (from The Unreasonable Silence)
Riversea - The Fallen (from Out of An Ancient World)
Subsignal - A Myth Written on Water (from The Beacons of Somewhere)
Muse - Sing for Absolution (from Absolution)

The Ones That Got Away - Riversea...

I was not the only person listing their top ten albums of 2012 and of course there are a number of really good ones I've found myself catching up on (and my wallet complaining about!). So to start 2013 I will be looking at the ones that got away kicking off with Riversea's debut release Out of an Ancient World.

A number of friends recommended this and I suspect I would have been on many people's top ten if it hadn't be released in December. It is a wonderful collection of songs and the fact it is a debut album belies the fact that it sounds so good. They mix the mellow vocals and keyboard sweeps with occasional grittiness and passion fused with some classy guitar solos. Echoes of Marillion and Pink Floyd here and there, the album seeps emotion.

Stand out tracks are the thought provoking Is That What God Wants? and the sublime title track Out of An Ancient World but they are all good.

If I'd picked it up before I started my 2012 Top Ten it would certainly have been in it!