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Four songs, four winners... not a bad ratio, I’d say. Germany’s Candela boasts six members and plays a distinctly German style of power-prog. More so than most, this truly does handle both subgenres in equal measure and with great taste, getting neither too melodramatic with the power nor too ornate with the prog. That leaves this band squarely in that respectable but underappreciated pack of bands like Rough Silk, Sieges Even and Shadow Gallery, all of whom deserve more print than they often garner. Anyhow, here we just have truly fine songs with consistent tricks up their collective sleeves, stellar guitar solos ever so slightly better than the riffs, keyboards and arrangements that lean occasionally pastoral a la Uriah Heep or early Rainbow and somewhat belie the post-urban aesthetic of the music in general and the album cover in particular. What else to say? It’s better than their quite-decent self-titled debut from a few years before, and hopefully nowhere near as good as the follow-up Reflect, which I’ve yet to hear. Time to remedy that situation, no doubt.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Falling |
| 2. Going Down |
| 3. Entropy |
| 4. Resurrection |
: 23:33
| Buy other Candela albums |
