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A Fine Day to Exit

a Studio Release
by: Anathema
Release Year:
2001
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Added To Proggnosis on: 11 Oct 2001
Last Updated on: 30 May 2010 by: Rob

Track Listing 

  1. Pressure (6:44)
  2. Release (5:47)
  3. Looking Outside Inside (6:23)
  4. Leave No Trace (4:46)
  5. Underworld (4:09)
  6. Barriers (5:53)
  7. Panic (3:30)
  8. A Fine Day To Exit (6:49)
  9. Temporary Peace (18:26)

Performer Credits  


Vincent Cavanagh
Vocals guitar
Danny Cavanagh (Daniel Cavanagh)
Guitar
Les Smith
Keyboards
John Douglas
Drums

Reviews


review by: NunoHey, what are these guys doing???
Only surfacing the themes and elements of their prior two releases, Anathema are back and they are different…
This is definitely not Metal and its hardly Prog, so what is it? You may ask!
Well, this is a very mature and solid album from an over talented band (in my own opinion), but A fine day to exit is almost a completely Alternative album.
Anathema are not new in stepping onto new dimensions of its sound. They first grew as a band in a Dark/Doom Metal scene, then transform themselves into Dark Progressive Metal with Floydish orientations and now they have further evolved their originality…unfortunately away from their progressive status.
If maintaining a good dose of their melancholic approach in music, it comes in a different package, a bit resembling to (imagine this) Pulp (even if not in its musicality, at least in its melancholy suit).
The path is not the same alright!, but the shown originality maintains them as one of my favourite bands, and the album is clearly growing on me as I keep it spinning non-stop.
If I would consider musical resemblance’s, I would only point out (in a very subtile and ramdom way) Radiohead from their Pablo Honey (the most hard parts) and The Bends era.
There is more to it in each listen I give the album, but I have to be fair and say I was totally disappointed the first time I heard it. That’s because Alternative 4 and Judgement are amongst my favourite Prog Metal albums, and I was expecting one more reference album for this genre. So I expect you will feel the same as me…but don’t give up on the album and you will be rewarded. At least I was!
The changes in direction within the songs are still present, as in Looking outside inside, The true poetic desperation lyrics and vocals are too (even if Vincent has less desperate feeling vocalisations), and you will find hints from their latest albums in almost all songs, but especially in the title song, Temporary Peace and Leave no trace.
The use of female vocals in Barriers and Temporary peace is also new but the result is great.
The truth is that, once again, there are no weaker points in this album, as usual in their recent releases.
The lost of the heavy passages is clearly the great sin in this album, but if you like the most calm parts of previous works, you cant go wrong with this…They are good and that’s it!!

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