Return brings us a band that has developed an own and very characteristic sound, that mixes equal parts of Neo-Classic, Symphonic and Fusion musicality.
The fact that it is sung in Russian does grant Little Tragedies music to be in a fully original frame and scope, completing that sense of originality.
The music itself does have a good portion of Russian Ethnic flavor, both by the use of some Folksy architectures and the fact that the Neo-Classic parts do have all in common with the classical works coming from that region in the last century.
While complex and quirky, the music strangely often shows a bizarre sense of “Naïf” structures, which seem to counterbalance the much crafted parts that fill the album.
The music has also Epic parts where all instruments are present, strangely augmenting velocity into a fiercing (yet melodic) rhythmic march.
Anyway, the music here is even more worked out when in comparison with their prior works, and though gaining in terms of grandeur and complexity, it somehow lose some of its prior mellow harmony.
To narrow a bit the scope of this Russian band’s musicality, I could picture them as the Russian Emerson, Lake & Palmer, for the virtuosity and craftsmanship of the compositions, that constantly change, into very apart emotional landscapes.