You've Got to Give the New Styx Album a Listen!

[bitflipper]

I've long ago let go of mainstream rock and pop music. Or I should say mainstream rock and pop left me. So very little of it holds any appeal anymore and I'm tired of the classics I've heard a thousand times. These days, on most nights when I'm lying in the dark listening on headphones it'll be something from the 19th century on Deutsche Grammophon rather than In the Court of the Crimson King.

So I am absolutely thrilled whenever I find something from this century that scratches the same itch that vintage ELO used to do. That only happens once in a great while. The Foo Fighters' Medicine at Midnight was one recent discovery that made me happy. I'm not even a big fan of that band, but Mr. Grohl and company stretched their vision on that one.

And now there's the new Styx album, Circling From Above, to add to my small collection of modern classics. Always a good band, over the decades those guys have continued to grow while never forgetting the value of a good melody. Virtuoso dueling guitars on top of dreamy synths, and of course their signature fat vocal harmonies. Fell asleep to it last night and woke up with a smile this morning.

 

[bmarlowe]

For me Styx still is a local (Chicago) band. Funny, the track you posted does somehow remind me of my pristine 1969 vinyl copy of "In the Court of the Crimson King" (if one can ever call vinyl pristine). I am a big Greg Lake fan.

Anyway, "21st Century Schizoid Man" does bring someone to mind.

Edited 21 hours ago by bmarlowe

[Base 57]

I really like track 4, "King of Love".

Thanks Bit.