Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (Limited Edition) (2015) BBM torrent

Genre: Progressive
Subgenre: Progressive Rock / Metal
Bitrate: 320 k
Size: 210 MB

Disc 1:
01. Lost (Why Should I Be Frightened By a Hat?)
02. Under the Pillow
03. #Addicted
04. Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire
05. Saturate Me
06. Afloat
07. Discard Your Fear
08. Towards the Blue Horizon
09. Time Travellers
10. Found (The Unexpected Flaw of Searching)

Disc 2:
01. Heavenland
02. Return
03. Aether
04. Machines
05. Promise
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Poland’s Riverside should be no stranger to the dedicated reader of these Angry pages. After discovering the band’s Anno Domini High Definition in 2009, Riverside has sneakily become one of the staples of my playlist. I wasn’t completely enamored with Shrine of New Generation Slaves; but its chill, more reflective moments are the ones that I keep coming back to: “The Depth of Self Delusion,” yes, but especially, “We Got Used to Us,” which has a slow groove and a transcendent chorus. Still, SoNGS lacked the punch and progressive drive that ADHD—and the band’s earlier material—had, and landed far more in the territory of post-Marillion prog, without the brooding darkness into which late Gazpacho has wandered recently. SoNGS was, arguably, nothing more or less than a road sign, though, pointing towards 2015’s latest record: Love, Fear and the Time Machine.

Love, Fear and the Time Machine is a subtle, calm album: defined almost more by its feel than by its songs. The record, at least at first blush, could be accused of being uniform—particularly in comparison to the band’s earlier material. At an hour long, I have to admit I was gearing up for a gentle reminder that quantity is not quality. But similar to Riverside 2015-1staring at 3D Stereogram for a while, Love, Fear and the Time Machine opened up before me and started to take form and definition. It proved to be worth the wait. Like its predecessor, this record is mellow; but the band has started to perfect the formula. There is very little of the heavy, urgent material that littered the band’s earliest material. Aside from about 3 minutes in “Towards the Blue Horizon,” the bands heaviest moments sound a lot more akin to ’80s British melancholic rock (see: “#Addicted”) than Riverside circa 2004.