They are a six-piece (for this debut anyway), and the driving force is the very talented keyboardist, and songwriter, Eddy Antonini, who is adept at piano and harpiscord, as well as the usual electronic keyboards, and they blend in well with the guitars, producing some nice symphonic music.
However, they also have vocalist Fabio Dozzo. Yesterday, I wrote that Royal Hunt had one of the best voices around in D.C. Cooper. Well, Skylark goes to the other end of the spectrum here. Dozzo is dreadful. He hardly manages to get tunes out at all half the time, and when he does, he misses as many notes as he hits. This record, which is just a short effort at about 35 minutes, is reasonable, but could have been much better if fronted by someone who could actually carry a tune.
There's promise here but, Skylark, find a vocalist who actually has vocals!
**1/2
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