CAVALCADE

I guess this must be a treat for King Crimson, The Mars Volta and whatever avant-garde stuff fans. The thing is... i kinda hate The Mars Volta and this band reminds me of them too much, many times. I feel, and this is just my opinion, that this music is superficially experimental. Nothing that King Crimson -injected with the unbearable high speed hysteria from The Mars Volta- hasn't done before. Technically this should be an excellent album but it was overhyped and it lacks the real creepiness and mystic that many avant-garde albums have. I mean, i could say it's good, because the musicmanship and the production are great, but the listening experience is unpleasant to me. I respect them as musicians but 2 stars seem more adequate in this case.