"THE LANCASTERS" is a heavy rock, psychedelic, band hailing all the way from Italy and was formed in 2019. How I know this took me what feels like forever to find! Honestly it seemed like I really could not find much of anything about this band online, even their Facebook bio was minimal at best, which is super frustrating. This is not about that though, this is about "THE LANCASTERS" new album "The Word of the Mistral", a 10 song album released October of 2025. Diving right into "Sons of the Sin", this was the perfect length for me coming in at only three minutes and six seconds long. I was actually absolutely loving where the song was going...and then the vocals dropped in. I get the 1960s-1970s Beatles revolutionary vibe, which is honestly great! I love that! What I do not love is the heavily used auto tune. Between the music and the thickness of the auto tune it sounded like if someone took a vinyl album and did the slow playing the song backwards thing with it to hear the supposed hidden message. You know what I'm talking about, the playing Ozzy backwards thing?

Let's move on to "The One (Who Sees in the Dark)" because I feel like I'm giving a lot of hate over the auto tune and that may have been exactly what they were going for! This has now went from the perfect three minutes song to an almost six minute song! The auto tune is absolutely horrible, to the point it makes me almost dizzy listening to it. The drums and guitar are spot on and I absolutely love that old vibe but, gah, the auto tune! I just want to hear the actual voice with a little auto tune. I will not lie, I could not make it through this song unfortunately. I gave it my absolute best though! "Rules of the Road" started with some awesome instrumentals that I again thoroughly enjoyed, the auto tune was not super thick, it was only four minutes long. So heck yes! This is what I am talking about! The Austin Powers vibe of the song was everything and made me think people were saying shagadelic again. "Crowns Fayre", so far may possibly be my favorite track. I can hear the clean, fresh, vocals peaking through the absolute horrid auto tune. I can not help it, auto tune to me is basically cheating. "The Blue Flowers lead to Nowhere" quite possibly might be my favorite track of this album. Its a super fun song with a hint of a bluesy sound. It does have some auto tune but nothing I can not handle.

Skipping to the end with "Girl in the Sun" this could have been a top contender for favorite track of the album, unfortunately eight minutes and fifteen seconds and I do not mesh well together. If you can handle that, definitely take some time to check it out. All in all I honestly can not say this would be a band I personally would want to spend too much time following. The instrumentals are great! The singer not so much, I apologize its just not for me. From what I gather, this album only took a week to record and it shows. When the instruments are louder than the voice you have to take some time to figure out how to even it out. I'm no professional and have no idea how to use anything in a recording studio, but I do know you can lower the sound of the band.