Far From Your Sun – “A dream of hell”

Far From Your Sun is a Paris-based progressive rock project that has been quietly building its own world since 2016. Their debut In the Beginning Was the Emotion laid the groundwork, and The Origin of Suffering pushed further into dense arrangements and heavy mythological territory. Now they have a third album out, A Dream of Hell, and it’s a noticeable shift from anything they’ve released before.

The cover art is wonderful, and it’s the first thing that caught my attention, a door left ajar in a cold, dark landscape, red light bleeding out from whatever’s on the other side, a shadowy figure caught mid-movement. Someone clearly thought hard about what this album needed to look like before a single note was heard.

A Dream of Hell didn’t come from careful planning. It came from somewhere more raw. You can tell this wasn’t a project that sat in a drawer for two years getting polished. It had to exist, and that kind of honesty tends to produce the most genuine art. My favorites are “Eternity” and “Tyger”.

FFYS has always pulled from multiple disciplines, photography, painting, poetry, alongside the music, and this album sounds like all of that colliding at once. Worth your time.

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