Artist: A.C.T.
Album: CIRCUS PANDEMONIUM (CD)

Year: 2014
EAN/UPS: 7320470185889
Media type: CD

As always if you are lucky or clever enough to purchase a new album by this first class Swedish band, you are in for a long trip through a mix bag of sensations, emotions, exaltations and everything in between, you are also embarked for a million of ideas and a billion of Musical references like QUEEN / KANSAS / ASIA / SAGA / MARILLION / RUSH a real treat for the audiophile geeks and Proggy maniacs, if I had to bring some stylistic parallelism with less mythical and more contemporary artists, I will propose an improbable mix of MOON SAFARI meets SPOCKS BEARD meets HAKEN meets FREAK KITCHEN meets ZELLO meets KARNIVOOL etc…An Heavenly success in mixing some antagonist parameters in a seamless fluidity… But at the end of the day the only real valid and convincing influences connection is A.C.T. themselves, as their signature style is so strong, actually improved, even magnified and embellished reaching the Eargasm climax at its peak…Better than ever.

I've been following A.C.T. for over a decade. This album is very much like "SILENCE". Great musicianship as always, maybe not as catchy as some of their previous albums. But still a must have.

TRACKLIST:

1. Intro (1:01)
2. The End (5:56)
3. Everything's Falling (4:55)
4. Manager's Wish (5:54)
5. A Truly Gifted Man (6:44)
6. Presentation (1:03)
7. Look At The Freak (1:13)
8. Argument (1:06)
9. Confrontation (1:12)
10. A Mother's Love (2:37)
11. The Funniest Man Alive (3:46)
12. Scared (Japanese bonus track) (4:43)
13. A Failed Escape Attempt (5:18)
14. Lady In White (4:40)
15. Freak Of Nature (5:59)

Total Time 56:17

LINE-UP:

Jerry Sahlin / synthesizers
Ola Andersson / electric and acoustic guitars
Peter Asp / bass guitar
Herman Saming / vocals
Thomas Lejon / percussion