| 4.5 superb |
| Air Le Voyage Dans La Lune |
| Bright Eyes Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground |
| Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink |
| Crystal Castles Crystal Castles |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Octavarium |
| Gentle Giant Free Hand |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Haken Visions |
| King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon |
| King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic |
| mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK |
| Muse Black Holes & Revelations |
| Secret Chiefs 3 Book of Horizons |
| Steve Vai The Story of Light |
I have mixed feelings about Steve Vai. Some of his material is the most technically amazing stuff I've ever
heard; I consider him to be the greatest guitarist on the electric guitar of all time. That being said, much of
his material (like his critically acclaimed Passion and Warfare) left me unsatisfied. Despite the high level of
technical proficiency, in the past he has had a tendency to compose some straight-forward and (in my
opinion) boring music. That's not to say all of his material before this album falls into this category; each
album I've listened to by him has some great and some incredible tracks, but he has not been consistent.
Anyways, I put on Vai's most recent album and it blew me away. It's a continuation of his previous album
Real Illusions: Reflections (and it's the sequel to it as part of a planned trilogy) but musically it perfects what
was only sometimes reached on that album. The focus is not on shredding guitars but on moving music.
The Story of Light is a beautiful, layered, textural, and eclectic collection of tracks that show Steve at his best
compositionally. It's also (perhaps not coincidentally) his most progressive album that I've heard. I highly
recommend The Story of Light, and it may just be the most skilled guitarist of all time's best album to date.
Rating: 9/10 |
| Steve Vai Where The Wild Things Are (DVD) |
| System of a Down Hypnotize |
| The Enid In The Region of the Summer Stars |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground & Nico |
| The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground |
| Theocracy As the World Bleeds |
| Thy Catafalque Rengeteg |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff |
| Von Hertzen Brothers Love Remains the Same |
| Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot |
| Yes The Yes Album |
| Yes Relayer |
