Heaven Sent
5
By John Chinmin
This live album features a completely unique set of unreleased tracks performed only two nights for the opening of an art show at the Guggenheim museum in Manhattan. Each song seamlessly flows into the next. There are some amazing vocals in here but it is mostly an instrumental album. Invocation starts it off with a ceremony of lyrics, into the hauntingly enchanting Whistling Through the Graveyard. From there it transitions to the fabled Forest Elf, a song originally thought to be featured on Congratulations. Then into the moody threesome of Tell it to Me Like it is, I Am Not Your Home, and Unfriend. The standout of the album is Who’s Counting, an ear worm with outstanding lyrics and a heavy jam finishing the track. An interlude into a slight reprisal of earlier track Whistling past the graveyard which explodes into the sweeping, solo filled guitar forward celebration ending that is Under the Porch. All in all an 11/11.
