"Lupus Pilum Mutat, Non Mentem" – The wolf may change its fur, but not its nature.
With an opening gambit on 'Troublemaker' featuring a dead language proverb and a decidedly 'prog' album based around the concept of standing up for your beliefs and learning from history 'I, Vigilante' may already be dividing opinion as you read this. But hold your ferrum (horses), this isn't some clever, clever band lording it over the plebs. Well I can't be certain, but the album itself doesn't give out a condescending vibe.
Instead you just get a flowing, almost wistful, ride around a combination of beauty and nostalgia, perhaps tinged in places with regret – hear their peon to WWII 'Bostogne Blues' and I defy you not to hear echoes of GY!BE's 'Dead Flag Blues', another track of epic sadness and melancholy.
'I, Vigilante' is difficult for the right reasons I guess. It's not a series of easy to dismiss songs and you can't 'dip into it' easily. The very notion of listening to something from start to finish is perhaps anathema, but if your not of that opinion there's a rewarding listen here and you get the impression a CBP live show would be scintillating stuff.
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