Coming straight from Barcelona, Spain with "Reveries" is DEGRAEY. This is the band's second release, following up from their debut album in 2016 titled "Chrysalis". The album shares a blend of post metal, progressive rock and metal, stoner metal, and doom. I knew when I saw the artwork for this album, it was going to be an enjoyable experience to hear and review. The album is just six tracks long, but don't let that fool you. Each track offers great depth and element, with the shortest being eight minutes in length. The album comes just a few minutes short of an hour, offering a great experience. It plays on a wide range of emotions for me. This is a piece that you sit in a quiet room and study. The instrumentals and vocals almost feel as if they're flowing through every part of your mind and soul. Each song has the same formula, with a mix of clean and distorted instrumentals and vocals. It's almost as if every song is an album in and of itself. With the songs all being so lengthy, there's a lot to take in and discover, and with its rawness, it's as if you're taking a journey on every track.

 The album's opening track, titled "Nurture" starts out with a dreary clean echo and transitions into a heavier sound. This allows for a strong build up for the song and will set the mood and expectations for the rest of the album. If you're a person like me, who listens to music expecting it to touch and weigh in on your emotions, then you'll feel that this will stimulate feelings of sadness and anger. Track three is titled "Woven Conscience"; which I absolutely love the name of, plays on the same basis and formula as "Nurture". A great quantity and number of this song is instrumental. There are moments where clean lead guitars are blended on top with a distorted rhythm guitar tone, adding inward distance to the song. This one in particular makes me experience this band on a more atmospheric and psychedelic level, as if you're drifting freely through infinite time and space. The song ends with a white noise like sound that merges into the next track, "Sprawling Nest".

 "The Inert" is the sixth and final track that ultimately completes the album. This song goes to show that track placement on this album is important. It sort of acts as a final act to the album. I'm not sure if this was the band's intentions. But with the build and character of this song, you can feel as if things are coming to a close. By four minutes and forty seconds into a lengthy nine and a half minutes, the song offers a riff that makes you really experience that final act. I very much enjoyed this album. I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of stoner, doom, progressive, and post metal genres. If I was to compare these guys to a couple more well known bands, I would have to say they are a mixture of A PERFECT CIRCLE and MASTADON.

The album has a raw production sound, where it doesn't sound so overproduced to where it almost sounds fake and programmed. This was the first time I have ever listened to DEGRAEY, which entices me to dive into their previous and first album released. All in all, it's the instrumentals, and song structure of this album that make this album great. It's worth experiencing over again, and it's certainly worth buying. I hope to see and hear more from DEGRAEY in the future. You can tell that the members have a very strong bond, creating a well built and powerful musicianship.