Here’s one they made earlier. Aeon Spoke’s self-titled debut for SPV more or less replicates 2005’s Above The Buried Cry. ‘Cavalry of Woe’, ‘Sand and Foam’, and ‘The Fisher Tale’ replace ‘Suicide Boy’, ‘Face the Wind’, and ‘For Good’, plus the latest album reworks, and reorders, the surviving tracks.

The changes make a lot of sense. Especially as lead singer and lyricist Paul Masvidal explains that Aeon Spoke “deals with evolution and transformation of being human, from the external experience to the internal”. So “the album begins with a war march”, the aforementioned

‘Cavalry of Woe’ and “ends with complete surrender” aka closer ‘Silence’.

Masvidal has worked with Aeon Spoke drummer Sean Reinert before. They were founding members of death metal band, Cynic. Metal detectors, though, will be disappointed with this new project.

Yet Cynic fans will recognise the progressive rock touches of years gone by. Aeon Spoke also throw folk into the mix. But, above all, there’s an otherwordly quality about their sound.

Aeon Spoke themselves label their music “as vibrational music for the spirit”. Their LA base is no accident, it seems. Looks like the City of Angels just welcomed some more celestial beings into its midst.

(3¾/5)