THE TWENTY SEVEN CLUB

Magenta's Twenty Seven Club finds the trio of band founders Rob Reed and Christina Booth and loyal guitarist Chris Fry turning out some fairly typical material. By this point none of this material is especially surprising coming from Magenta, being as it is accessible, melodic neoprog built to showcase Booth's vocals. Decent, but as far as numerically titled Magenta albums go it's no Seven; then again, if you're really into neo-prog and don't mind that Magenta are rather repeating themselves here, it might be worth your while, and I admit that the album concept (paying tribute to a brace of classic musicians who all died at 27 - how many can you guess from the song titles?) is quite fun.