Virtuality by Scott Mosher

Friendly dude, Scott Mosher, of much verbose qualities, requested this to be filed under “ambient, neo-progressive cyber-rock.” I’m sure all the Virtuality reviews have this phrase... I would agree if I could reminisce about the days of the mid 80s. I could imagine those rock kids feigning to the thought of their beloved Rush adopting New Wave tendencies. Spacey, flying through the Blade Runner sky... wow, flick that bic! Show me Terry Bozzio! Go Spyro Gyra! But hey those were great days cuz keyboards dominated and were actually referred to synthesizers, and the synths probably had better sounds that those found on prog metal today. Its cool to hear this stuff set to rock drums. The talent is admirable on synth, on guitar, on everything else but one thing... So I am only hung up on the singer on a few of the songs. There’s a guy who does approach Geddy Lee tone but not Geddy Lee ability. He’s more like some Italia-disco freestyle singer who seems to try too hard. But with Scott Mosher’s ambidextrous, multi-disciplines (I’m trying to adopt his lingo here) we could get something that approaches the explorations of today’s new age/techno/DJ albums.

Score 2/5

by Alzn