hypersongs

Delusion Rain

The sixth studio album, the first after Benoit David and the first with Jean Pageau.
Mystery, 2015

All six tracks are by St-Pere. The band recorded in their own studios, Pageau recorded his vocals in a studio, and St-Pere produced and mixed. In a ten-year retrospective of October 9, 2025 he said the aim was a real band record capturing the live sound; "The Willow Tree" and "Wall Street King" date from around Theatre of the Mind; Fournier recorded all the bass for the first time on a Mystery album; Sylvain Descoteaux of HUIS played most of the piano; Michaud played guitars and atmospheric pads; and most of Pageau's demos made it onto the album. The digital release was on November 1, the German CD on November 6, the UK on November 13, and vinyl on August 26, 2017, with live bonus tracks from April 3, 2016.

It reached 20 on the Official Progressive Albums Chart. Get Ready to Rock gave 4.5 stars, calling them one of the best progressive bands out there; Rock Hard gave 8 of 10; Babyblaue-Seiten gave 9 of 15 and Betreutes Proggen 11 of 15; The Prog Report called it an excellent album with great production.

Track listing

  1. Delusion Rain10:04
  2. If You See Her6:11
  3. The Last Glass of Wine6:47
  4. The Willow Tree19:30
  5. Wall Street King6:39
  6. A Song for You12:35

More from Mystery

Theatre Of The Mind (1996), Destiny? (1998), Beneath The Veil Of Winter's Face (2007), One Among The Living (2010), The World Is A Game (2012), Tales From The Netherlands (2014), Lies And Butterflies (2018), Caught In The Whirlwind Of Time (2020), Redemption (2023)

Sources

  1. Delusion Rain, Wikipedia
  2. Delusion Rain: 10 years already, part 2, Mystery (2025-10-09)
  3. Mystery, Delusion Rain, Get Ready to Rock (2015-12-19)