SILHOUETTE - MOODS - 2009

"Three years ago, Silhouette presented its debut album A Maze. The potential and ambitions of this Utrecht based band were put cleary to the forefront, but the band missed some experience to make a top class product by then. After listening to only a few minutes of Moods, you can already conclude that Silhouette has advanced quite a lot in its develepment. Wow, this sounds really cool. Not only is the sound is rich and warm, the band also plays more closely together and more self confidently than ever. The Silhouette musical style has not changed, and is still pure sympho. The synthesizer solo's and melodic guitar solo's keep jumping out of the speakers. A certain comparison can be made with the Dutch band Leap Day. While the Frisian band however, emphasises the excellent string-works by Eddie Mulder, with Silhouette this is more with the flashy keyboardwork of Erik Laan. Perhaps this is not to be wondered, as Knight Area's keyboardist also did the mixing and mastering of the album. Also the guitar playing by Brain de Graeve strongly contributes to the symphonic sound of the group. The playing-togehter by guitars and keyboards will arouse a light sense of exitement by many Genesis-fans. Not that we can conclude that we deal here with a band that wants to follow the footsteps of our famous friends, but it is clear where the members of the band have been inspired by. This could also have been Mangrove or Knight Area. The last band however scores a little bit higher with the singing. In Silhouette, three of the band members do lead singing parts. They do this well, but a singer of the caliber Mark Smit might have added value. We are not going to complain about it, after all there is enough to enjoy. Any doubts that A Maze might call up, is history after the 80 minutes pure prog-joy of Moods."
RATING: VETTE KRENT (Highest recommendation)
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