Beautiful soft prog with lovely female vocals. Reminds me a bit of iamthemorning in how it just makes me feel like closing my eyes and floating away 🫠 The first half isn't perfect, but man does it ever make up for it with the latter 3 songs which also feature some very tasteful guitar solos on Home and Bulbul Tarang. Wongle No9 is also just a funny song title in general. Probably gonna end up being one of my hidden gems of the year, so don't miss out!

bambiplanet23

I love trying out new albums just based off the name and cover art exactly because of records like this. What a beautiful piece of work, it's hard to describe it any other way. Solstice are a British prog rock band that put out a debut album in 1986 and then sat on the back-burner for over 30 years until 2020 when they gained a new lead singer, Jess Holland, and oh my god - what an angel. It's a great story with some incredible music to go along with it. One of my favourite ... read more

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