21st Art Rock Show: Endless Forms Most Beautiful

De nieuwe plaat van Nightwish sluit naadloos aan bij koude en natte dagen. We hebben op ons lijstje deze week: Nightwish (Endless Forms Most Beautiful), And So I Watch You From Afar (All Hail Bright Futures), Finisterre (Memoirs), Shadow Gallery (Tyranny), Ars Nova (Seventh Hell) and Anyone`s Daughter (Live).
Dom Lawson van the Guardian: “Bravely, Endless Forms Most Beautiful eschews the Finns’ usual fairytale comfort zone in favour of a sustained paean to evolutionary science, featuring the surprising but effective presence of Richard Dawkins as a narrator. It’s a change of tack that adds intrigue and substance to the band’s typical bombast and melodrama, resulting in their most ambitious and assured record yet.
Newly recruited singer Floor Jansen strikes a fine balance between operatic acrobatics and straightforward, soulful restraint, most notably on twinkling earworm Élan.… Read more...