ProgRock Records, 2008

Evolve IV's debut album is a result of what started as exchanging of ideas via internet between Michael Eager from USA and peter Matuchniak from UK.
Soon after other musicians joined to create Decadent Light, which is an album mostly inspired by the old prog legends such as Genesis and Yes, combined with new school pop rockers like Coldplay and Radiohed and let's not forget Pink Floyd and The Beatles.

So if you take all this and combine it you will get a quite good picture of what this album is all about.
There is no doubt that we have a very good musicians on this album, but their focus is not on playing as technically challenging as possible in order to prove their skills. Also the production is very warm and professionally done and number of different instruments and guest performances is accompanied well together. Especially guest vocals by Tali Azered and Stephen Bell's sax solos stand out.

Through the eleven tracks the listener is taken into a mellow world of musical challenges that often provide some great soundscapes, but sometimes this world doesn't seem like enough mostly due to lack of edge and oscillations in the songwriting. However this doesn't happen too often and definitely not often enough to overshadow the good aspects of this album and the album as a whole.
Evolve IV’s music often seems very easy to digest, but it takes few listenings to experience the all the small details, which are a big part of this albums strength.

This is an enjoyable album, which delivers lots of very interesting details and a good overall atmosphere, it's one of those albums that you can play in the background while you friends with lame musical taste are visiting you and they won't complain because overall feel of the music is very melodic and easy to swallow and you can be happy that you are for once able to listen some good music when you have them visiting.

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