EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

This is a true masterpiece debut album! I like the more aggressive and artistic symphonic material which this band managed to create, but sadly many of their albums don't reach their full potential they could have managed to do. Luckily their fist album does it. The opener "The Barbarian" has quite cool fuzz bass on it, and it's a transition of BELA BARTÓK's piece. The following "Take A Pebble" is one of the most perfect progressive ballads. It's long, full of acoustic musical solo scores, which drift pleasantly from an idea to another like a summer day's dream. "Knife-Edge" brings back the violent moods with raw sounds, good riffs and fine rhythms. Two next numbers are solo scores, "The Three Fates" is for Keith and "Tank" for Carl. The drum solo is a difficult task, and this isn't very exiting, but OK performance still. "Lucky Man" is then Greg's composition, an acoustic ballad with weird synthesizers. As a total, these tracks create a real classic album!