Welsh progressive/alternative rock act Panic Room has just released a jewel. Their new album Essence dropped last October 5, and was funded through a highly successful Kickstarter Campaign, with the fans helping to almost double the band's campaign target.
Essence, Panic Room's fifth full-length album, contains 10 wonderful reworkings of the greatest songs from the band's back catalogue in a mostly acoustic format, along with 2 brand new songs written especially for this record. Essence is one of the best album of the year: listen to a sampler on BandCamp, then go buy it.