Manigance's third studio album doesn't sound that much different from their first two, and I was thinking that they're just too hard to get into, but by the end of sitting down and really listening to it, I was really starting to have a good time, which is pretty impressive, since the record is over an hour, and yet it's songs on the second half, like "
Privilège", "Sentinelle", "Miroir de la vie" and "Esclave", that really started to grab me. The technical prowess of the sextet are exceptional of course, although I don't really care for Didier Delsaux's rather nasally voice.
But this is a really good album. I've sometimes wondered whether the only reason I stick with Tierra Santa is because of the novelty of them singing in Spanish, and I was thinking that might be the same with Manigance in regards to French. But no, I enjoyed this, and am starting to respect what the band can do.
***1/2
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