5. Fjieri - Endless
What a pleasant surprise this was! After 10 years of work, these Italian proggers give us Endless – an album where nothing is as it seems. In all my years of analyzing music, I have never encountered such a multi-faced record. Where one song is a traditional 80’s synth instrumental, the next is a smooth jazz jam session. Ambient, pop, darkwave, piano rock, and several others make up all nine songs on this debut. Also the list of guest musicians the band has gathered is quite impressive. Porcupine Tree’s drummer Gavin Harrison and keyboardist Richard Barbieri, (who also co-produced the record), Tim Bowness of the British pop enigma No-Man, and more make this record as distinct as it is memorable. With the obvious influence of Porcupine Tree and No-Man, you can also hear the improve styling’s of King Crimson in the bass and more mellow parts of the record. It’s otherworldly and probably won’t be able to leave my mind for a long time.
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