With Threshold‘s eleventh album and first in three years, Legends of the Shires, appearing next month, I took the opportunity to talk to keyboardist Richard West and returning singer Glynn Morgan about the new album, the band’s illustrious history and future developments. You have a new album coming out: Legends of the Shires. It has so many resonances with your past … [Read more...]
Threshold – Legends of the Shires
There is an exhilarating moment of revelation, approximately 3:30 into Stars and Satellites (Track 5), where the building crescendo in the wall of sound abruptly halts, leaving just an isolated keyboard and echoed vocal accompanied by a simple bass line, perfectly framed and accentuated by the silence. Fifteen seconds later the most glorious guitar solo penetrates and swells to … [Read more...]