Cradle really seem to be firing out albums lately, or perhaps I'm just getting old and time is sailing by with the pace of say, a methamphetamine powered Concorde. Stylistically, Cryptoriana is not dissimilar to the excellent Hammer Of The Witches; it is nimble and well-produced, with the band still enjoying its most reliable and consistently strongest line-up in quite some time. However, I cannot shake the feeling that the band are just going through the motions here.
Asides from some post-something style guitar playing on some of the more relaxed passages, this is excruciatingly latter-day Cradle by numbers. Don't get me wrong, this isn't boring, like Manticore or Venus Aversa, and whilst the songs here are incredibly musically dexterous, there is nothing challenging, nothing new and perhaps most importantly, nothing exciting about any of them. Disappointing.
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