Napier instrumental prog-metal trio Jakob.
The troubles that this Napier-based instrumental three-piece endured recently meant a gap of eight years between albums.
But they prove true the cliche about great art being created from adversity because here they have crafted an often sublime, dense yet subtle and quite exceptional album, which is cinematic in its
themes and surround-sound in its production.
With a symphonic reach across seven tracks, here are astutely constructed guitar loops, a string part by Rhian Sheehan on the initially weightless and quite gorgeously romantic Emergent, experimental sounds corralled into song structures, and emotions that shift from melancholy to heroic.
Watch the music video for Blind Them With Science by Jakob:
