All the way from Italy step into the spotlight Oblivio, with this their four track release, 'The Distant Shoreline'.

Opening proceedings with 'Remembering Stars', a building guitar break that heavies itself up and shifts into a lighter approach, the vocal delivery is totally reminiscent of Euro rock artists and does nothing for me which sort of brings the whole project down slightly, although the songs do have some saving graces it should be uttered. 'Dedica', again, builds slowly and almost drearily saps away into nothingness and oblivio(n), no musical hooks to speak of as such, just plodding rock music of no real insignificance.

'Lost Conscience Water' takes a doomy, indie route that has elements of promise but falls extremely short at the last hurdle with absolutely no commercial springboard to bounce off, no memorable moments at all in evidence to get excited about or shout and scream from the Roman hilltops. Final track, 'The Distant Shoreline' instrumentally has some interest. Those mono-tonal vocals kill things dead and put the spoilers on anything that's musically valid, if anything musically valid can be lifted forth from this particular opus....ciao, ciao for now.
            

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