Sage: Up From Below

This four piece band from New Jersey has produced a high impact album, full of hard driving rock and roll, right alongside ambient jams and funky jazz numbers. A mix like that is always a good sign in a new band, quickly denoting themselves far from a one trick pony. Their most common influence is eighties prog rock, but that is simply the jumping point for this complex unit that can boil things down to some fine grooves. I wish “Colorado” would continue on way past the last note, and the southern Flavored “Moonshine” could fill an entire disc as far as I’m concerned. The last cut, “Knowledge Thief” is the longest song on the album and the most satisfying. The extension gives the themes a chance to stretch out and it’s well worth it. If there

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