Randy McStine (Lo-Fi Resistance) and Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats) recorded their collaborative album in fits and starts over between October 2019 and March 2020. Both are A-list players in the prog scene and McStine & Minnemann lives up to the expectations mostly, but some of the material feels a bit crowded, which is likely op happen when two multi-instrumentalists are egging each other on.
When everything does fall into place, the results are top-shelf: Program celebrating and showing concern about modern day technology, the good-humoured horror in Fly and the dark love song - ELO meets metal - Voyager. On the downside they are tracks like the cheesy Your Offenses and the run of the mill attempt at an anthem Tear The Walls Down (No Memories), a song with a couple sections that sound more am assemblage of loose ends. As a whole McStine & Minnemann is not a bad album, but it lacks consistency.
McStine & Minnemann is a self-released album. Buy it from their website (CD, digital), Limited vinyl (100 copies) via Diggers Factory .
Tracks:- Program
- Falling From Grace
- Your Offenses
- Catrina
- Top Of The Bucket
- Tear The Walls Down (No Memories)
- Fly
- Activate
- The Closer
- Voyager
