Progressive metal outfit Fair To Midland make their full-length debut with FABLES FROM A MAYFLY: WHAT I TELL YOU THREE TIMES IS TRUE, a loosely connected concept album held together by the Texas quintet's mixture of heavy stoner rock, tricky time signature changes and technically advanced riffs. Mixing delicate interludes like the spacy, Pink Floyd-esque "The Wife, the Kids and the White Picket Fence" with full-on prog-metal dazzlers such as the first single "Dance of the Manatee," this is a complex, richly rewarding slab of dense heady metal.
01 Dance of the manatee 02 Kyla cries cologne 03 Vice/versa 04 Wife the kids and the white picket 05 April fools and eggmen 06 Seafare's knot 07 Wolf descends upon the spanish 08 Walls of jericho 09 Tall tales taste like sour grapes 10 Upgrade brigade 11 Say when