“Original Sin” confirms Kim’s growing confidence in her ability to captivate the listener and do justice to the well written lyrics. Rob never overlays the effects with the result being a dovetailing of elements into a perfect circle. Quite simply there is enough thought provoking sequences to render speech redundant throughout the playing of this album.
Kim takes centre stage for the delicate “Solace”, whilst Adam launches into “Zinomorph” with pulsing guitar sitting on top of a window throbbing bass line from Paul Moorghen. Kim again shows her versatility as the track builds in intensity.
The wise lyrics of “Line In The Sand” arrive amid more excellent scorching guitar from Adam whose abrasive chords sits in balance with Rob’s subtle keys. It’s powerful stuff and with the line, ‘it’s not what it’s all about’, they leave you deeply locked in thought.
As if that wasn’t enough the two part “Witness” highlights the creative ambition, vision, and the ability to produce it, that lives within this band. As it moves towards to its finale it confirms all of the above superlatives with an ending of undeniable and now typical quality.
Discordant Dreams set the scene and now Wintercoast has fulfilled all that obvious promise with a huge album that is everything many of us already riding on the Touchstone train hoped it would be. It is little surprise that they have been touring with It Bites because that is exactly what this album does.
For details of how to buy the album, or see Touchstone play live (they have UK dates and are visiting the US later in the year) please visit their official website. Please also refer back to my review of Discordant Dreams and my Blogcritics interview with Touchstone's Rob Cottingham.
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