The Album
FALL is the second in the trilogy of war themed albums from f2g. With World War 1 as the backdrop the album also covers the events that followed, from WW2 up to present day. A change in direction from the segued approach of previous album ‘Rain’, ‘Fall’ is a more track-focussed album allowing each track to tell its own story. From the experiences of a Far East prisoner of war (Silent Code) through a tribute to Alan Turing (Enigma) to the Russian Revolution (October) via the effects of PTSD (Exit Wound), ‘Fall’ spans a century of war.
Fall
Running time: 56 minutes, 13 tracks
Available in Deluxe Digipak with 20 page booklet, Ecopak with 8 page booklet and download.
Fall running order:
- Fall
- Silent Code
- Names In The Stone
- Toll
- Playing God
- Exit Wound
- Enigma
- The Middle Game
- Trough Of War
- Solace
- Sleep Under The Flag
- Another Same
- October
2016
FALL Album Promo
Fall is the second album in the Freedom To Glide trilogy
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Obliveon
“Fall” is FREEDOM TO GLIDE’s second album of a trilogy about the horrific and tragic futility of war. While their first album “Rain” dealt with the First World War, this new work spans it’s conceptual arc over the Second World War up to the conflicts of today.
The poignant, thought-provoking lyrics are flanked by melancholic, immense atmospheric art-rock sounds, similar to the first album and EPs (also highly recommended), which we have also reviewed. The acoustic guitar, the piano, the warm guitar lines, ingratiating bass licks, unobtrusive fine drum figures, and the ever-present guitar melodies and solos in the style of David Gilmour and John Wesley have all been treated with a top production as “Fall” is crystal-clear and transparently balanced ear-candy. If you were to fuse “Animals”, “The Final Cut” and “The Division Bell” with the melancholic shades of Marillion, John Wesley, Steven or Ray Wilson then you’d be close to F2G.
This noble musical and lyrical content is also beautifully packaged: Digipak format with twenty page booklet form an excellent presentation. Overall a fascinating piece of work and a must for proggers with a sense of simplicity and atmosphere.
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"Seed is magnificent. It is devastating in the range of its emotional sweep, humbling in the profundity of the insights it enables and majestic in the way it flawlessly presents a holistic musical experience. This is, without doubt, a contender for album of the decade and should be mandatory listening for anyone who is grappling to understand what it is human beings are capable of doing to each other."
Rob Fisher
"There's elements of Floyd's Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell in their sound, they also point to Porcupine Tree as another inspiration and there's no denying that Richard Barbieri's keyboard style looms large. At their most sparse, Freedom To Glide also evoke the more soundscape-heavy fare of Barbieri's Rain Tree Crow side project."
Prog Magazine - May 2012
"In terms of clarity and depth and a level of musicianship that so very few attain, ‘Rain’ is a near perfect album that should be compulsory listening for progressive fans. A modern classic, Freedom to glide have created a true masterpiece that mingles beauty with sadness over its 63 gorgeous minutes."
Phil Stiles
"Sounds Like the best bits of mid-late career Pink Floyd"
Prog Magazine - May 2012
"I hope you will continue releasing such well-written, well played, and well-thought-out music. Not only is the musicianship and production excellent, your lyrics are literature in their own right. As a teacher of English for many years I often despaired at the poor quality of some bands' lyrics, but yours could be used in class as an example of well written imagery. They paint powerful pictures, and tell a story, which makes the songs powerful and memorable."
Dave Gordons
"Rain, is a superb album which has music which effortlessly flows throughout the 63 minutes, with swathes of keyboards, stunning lead guitar work, majestic piano passages, catchy acoustic guitar work and that crystal clear powerful voice. Above all, the concept dealing with the futility of war is dealt with sympathetically throughout and it must be one of the most emotionally tinged albums I have heard.... Go out and buy this album, listen to it completely and marvel at what Freedom To Glide have produced."
Jim ‘The Ancient One’ Lawson / Progzilla Radio
"Thanks guys. This album is gorgeous and confirms everything I love about prog, diversity, lyrical, musicianship and I love it. I simply have not listened to an album as many times in so short a time since the 70’s."
Musichog
“The British once again present a perfectly produced album”
Marten Dumbreck / Empire Magazine
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