Prog metal in all of its most educated refined ways. At the centre of the group we find a big sense of balance and instrumental class, with the predilection of feeling over the mere technical side: then it’s normal that, through the 9 tracks of “Caught In This Iless Storm”, pop up to mind names like Queensryche and Fates Warning, always representative of class made music. But we must not think of too thin sound matrixes, since avoiding the sterile technical exercise Art Of Simplicity succeed to keep the right space for each instrument, offering some thick arrangements that in the end grant the success also when the songwriting suffers some tired moment. They are not afraid of making the guitars roar, and they are wonderful also thanks to the use of the violin in the placid dreamy moments, succeeding to integrate within it also some almost crossover moment that recall, in the vocal parts especially, what is made by the new reference points in the style, Pain Of Salvation. It does not shine totally, because not all the tracks are up to the task, but already now Art Of Simplicity have a lot to say, and I guess they’re going to say something more in the future too.

Fulvio Adile