{"id":68715,"date":"2018-09-03T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=68715"},"modified":"2018-09-02T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:56:02","slug":"review-skyharbor-sunshine-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-skyharbor-sunshine-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Skyharbor – Sunshine Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Once upon a time, on a hard drive in New Delhi, guitarist Keshav Dhar created a handful of demos. Those demos caught the attention of Tesseract singer Daniel Tompkins, resulting in Skyharbor<\/strong>, an Indian\/American progressive metal band. The rest, as they say, is history. Pretty turbulent history all told. \u00a0After releasing two well-received albums, Tompkins left and Skyharbor<\/strong> fell apart. Reformed, with new singer and drummer, they\u2019re about to unleash \u2018Sunshine Dust\u2019<\/em> and, let\u2019s make this clear, the story is definitely not over.<\/p>\n

New singer Eric Emery is an excellent addition. His voice is looser, warmer, more fun, better. That\u2019s a good way to describe the album too. The band have reinvented themselves.\u00a0 Prior album \u2018Guiding Lights<\/em>\u2019 was the sound of gazing at the heavens, \u2018Sunshine Dust\u2019<\/em> isn\u2019t, it\u2019s grounded, yet free. By comparison, Tesseract\u2019s music feels calculated to within an inch of its life, here the songs are unrestrained. Skyharbor<\/strong> have embraced a less metal, even rock-driven, approach with djent sounds pared right back. No, this doesn\u2019t mean ditching their old sound, but they\u2019re directing it toward a different path.<\/p>\n