SHOWBIZ

I always liked PF and Led Zeppelin, but I took time out for metal, such as Metallica, Black Sabbath, Motorhead etc. (I did taste punk, but it stung). Then my dad's friend gave us alot of his music files as a return favour. This being one of them. The first time I listened to it was when I was ironing and trying my new iPod, 4gb at the time, don't know how I survived! Nevertheless, I found this such a good album to get myself back into prog, Floyd mainly, but I did get into much more prog after looking up Muse (ELP, KC, Yes, Genesis, Egg, The Nice etc) Which I am very satisfied with. I'm comfortable since Muse pulled me out of the mosh pit by throwing me the rope ladder. Well, Showbiz. I'd call it crude oil. It has some dirty, denser, heavier tracks (Cave & Muscle Museum particularly) And there are some fantastic 'prog' elements and piano thrown in (not just chords!) I'm only 15 (at time of writing) and it speaks to me, good for metalheads if they might fancy something with more sophistication, not sounding pretentious there, metal is good, but what can you listen to when you need to relax? This lets you have unintended and falling down (sort of), covers more bases than metal. Out of prog context, it's a spiffing effort from the Teignmouth-Trio. shame it sort of went down after Absolution. My opinion anyway. 4/5

'tis my first review so beware the 'noob' I believe the lingo of the now would call it.