Label: Cyclops

Line-Up:

• Bryan Josh - electric guitar, vocals, 6-string, 12-string acoustic, orian vocals on 8
• Heather Findlay - vocals, bodhran, tamborine and bells
• Ian Jennings - keyboards, backing vocals, gregorian vocals on 8
• Liam Davison - electric slide guitar, vocals on 7 and 8, 6-string+12 ring oustic
• Andy Smith - bass
• Jonathan Blackmore - drums
• Angela Goldthorpe - flute, recorders, background vocals on 10

Guest Musicians:

• Troy Donockley - low whistles on 7 and 10
• Marissa Claughan - cello on 4, 6 and 10
• Albert Dannenmann - rauschpfeife, krumhorn, renaissance recorders, solo anino, hummelchen and gaita

Tracks:

1. ... Just moving on (1.30)
2. We come and we go (4.37)
3. Half the Mountain (5.22)
4. The Eyes of the Forest (2.53)
5. The Dark before the Dawn (5.10)
6. Hollow (6.08)
7. Prints in the Stone (3.27)
8. The last bright Light (8.14)
9. Never the Rainbow (3.48)
10. Shrinking Violet (8.34)
11. Helms Deep (6.45)
12. Which Wood? (2.45)
13. Mother Nature (12.09)

Up to the moment I only had listened to the first album of the band, "For All We Shared", the second one "The Spirit of autumn Past", still not. This "The Last Bright Light" is the third one. Mostly Autumn are English and make a mixture of progressive rock in the vein of Pink Floyd with Celtic folk, something that we could estimate perfectly in the first album.

In this third album they continue a similar way, though it seems to me to be a more mature work than the first one. Both Pink Floyd's influences and the celtics remain here more diluted, the band is looking for its own sound. It does not mean that this is a complex album, quite the opposite, I would say that is a more easy access than the first one. Also there is a few approximation to the neo-progressive Pendragon kind.

The most prominent thing would be "Helms Deep", a great track where the symphonic and Celtic faces combines perfectly, and the extensive "Mother Nature", with many Pink Floyd's influences and a final exciting part.

The track "The Dark Before the Dawn ", also combines very well the rockish, symphonic, and Celtic facets. The rest, pinkfloydish symphonic songs slightly complex, but of very good level as " We Come and We Go ", the symphonic " Half the Mountain " among the best of the album and resembles a bit to Pendragon or "The Last Bright Light ". Also tracks with pastoral touches as "The Eyes of the Forest ", "Hollow" and "Shrinking Violet", all three with the personality that stamps the wonderful voice of Heather Findley, and " Prints in the Stone ", besides a more rocker track, "Never the Rainbow ", and the typically Celtic one of every Mostly Autumn's album, "Which Wood? ".

In short, a very advisable album, which there will be charmed to fans of the symphonic sounds in the vein of Pink Floyd, but without too many complexities.

Rating: 7/10

Ferran Lizana