RPWL, Crime Scene

I first heard RPWL when I stumbled upon their 2019 album Tales From Outer Space. I was quickly drawn to the German progressive rock band and their extensive twenty year catalog of albums and Tales quickly rose to be one of my favorites of that year.  

As I wrote back in 2019, the band started as a Pink Floyd cover band, and while it is probably not fair to still be talking about their origins 20+ years later, you can still hear Floyd influences, especially the band's later work (think The Division Bell). With this said, RPWL are truly an original band, especially on their concept oriented albums, such as their latest Crime Scene. On it, the band writes that it 'directs its attention to the morbid, the perverse, the evil in good, the abysses of the human behavior spectrum in all its unpredictable diversity, which sometimes comes across as bizarrely disturbing and conclusive, if one tries to fathom it.' Certainly not topics for the faint of heart, but in the hands of RPWL, they are explored in a way that will keep you coming back for another listen. So glad that RPWL are back.