*BC Series* Review: Cloudkicker - Beacons

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Back to the Bandcamp releases. This was the album that made me aware of the site, having been recommended by some site that I found in a random search for free music. Clearly, I was impressed enough to take great interest in the site, so it would seem I owe a lot to this album.

Cloudkicker is a one-man, instrumental progressive rock/metal project out of Columbus, Ohio. While my preferences in prog-rock are typically based on high-quality instrumentation, I generally lean toward acts with talented vocalists and interesting lyrical themes. It's a genre in which instrumental projects are usually very pretentious, and often boring. Cloudkicker doesn't come off that way to me.

Upcoming Release: Dragonfly Lingo - Flux

I don't intend to make a habit of coming back to an artist after only one other review, but with the release of Dragonfly Lingo's highly anticipated EP Flux just around the corner (scheduled to drop on Valentine's Day), I think I've waited long enough.