KARMAKANIC In A Perfect World CD (2011)

Swedish prog doesn't do anything by half. Karmakanic, the brainchild of Flower Kings bassist Jonas Reingold, built a career around the kind of sprawling, emotionally heavy progressive rock that demands a proper sit-down listen, not background music.

In A Perfect World (2011) is exactly what the title implies it isn't, a knotty, orchestrated meditation on the gap between how things are and how they should be. The instrumentation is dense, the arrangements ambitious, and the whole thing has that particular Scandinavian prog weight that lands somewhere between melancholy and euphoria. If you came up through The Flower Kings or Spock's Beard and you've been working your way outward, this is essential catalogue.

Full length album CD. Released 2011. Sweden, progressive rock and metal.

Fans of: Magic Pie, Unitopia, Rocket Scientists, The Tangent, Moon Safari, The Watch.