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Frogg Cafe' - Creatures

Frogg Café’s Creatures is a complex and symphonic affair, filled with tons of offbeat melodies and instrumental brilliance. “All This Time” kicks off the CD in grand fashion. Waves of Mellotron and heavy guitar riffs support the melodic vocals, which ultimately turns into a harder rocking piece than the band has ever done before. The gorgeous title track combines the deft beauty of vintage Kansas with the wacky complex time signatures of Frank Zappa. Weaving guitar and piano lines are littered all over this intricate piece, which also features some haunting violin. “The Celestial Metal Can” is the closest Frogg Café comes to RIO , as the band brought in a few guests for a avant-garde “chamber rock” experience along the lines of Henry Cow, Univers Zero, or Thinking Plague. Acoustic guitars, clarinet, flute, sarod, various percussion, and Toro electric weedwacker are all used resulting in an ethnic sounding yet jazzy cacophony of noises. This track segues into the violin tour-de-force of “Gagutz.”

The epic, 21-minute “Waterfall Carnival” finishes of the disc on a real high note. Throwing many styles at the listener, the band here has created a prog-rock masterpiece. Starting off with lush acoustic guitar and Mellotron that recalls vintage Genesis, the band then mixes symphonic rock and jazz-fusion for a huge wall of sound. Fans of Kansas or the Dixie Dregs will love how Frogg Café shifts into symphonic fusion on this one, resulting in a long track that lives up to its epic scope.