Dan Swano set out to make the best Nightingale album on their 7th (and most recent) and I believe they accomplished that because this is a mature, adeptly blended and impressive outing from start to finish. You could wax on about the influences and what genres they brought with them to the studio, but these are just purely fantastic songs. Some are more straight ahead rock or metal, whereas others pull back and are gentler. Each song is lyrically and instrumentally remarkable. "On ... read more