SHARDBORNE – Living Bridges

Shardborne are a 4-piece Progressive Instrumental outfit from Ireland, releasing a 7-track debut entitled Living Bridges. Like many Progressive bands, Shardborne’s music has a number of timing changes and shifts gears as well by blending various musical styles.  The tracks on Living Bridges all range from 6 minutes to 8.5 minutes, so you get plenty of song development within each track, and by and large they each have enjoyable parts to them and can stand on their own merits.  However, Shardborne seems to miss the mark on developing a true identity from track to track, making for an average release.