THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY

Whilst in the Anglo-American prog scene the heyday of the original wave of prog was long since over, the rise of neo- prog hadn't come yet, and major groups were beginning to reconfigure their sound away from prog, over in Poland Exodus were riding high. This debut album of theirs features a brace of tracks refined by extensive live performances over the preceding years, with a sound somewhere on the misty fairytale borderland between mid-period Genesis and classic Yes, the latter influence being especially evident in Paweł Birula's vocals and Władysław Komendarek's keyboard playing. The album is just as charmingly pretty as the title suggests, and the compositions are carefully refined, with flab and filler nowhere to be seen.