SMILING AT GRIEF

Okay, people on RYM... just STOP. Gordon Ramsay level STOP. Can you even decide what neo-prog is? Did it ever occur to you that part of a neo-prog album's negative reception would be that you mistag something that prog fans are expecting to be different? Coincidentally, while this early "neo-prog" album has nothing to do with it other than being a Twelfth Night release, this album isn't even sure what it wants to be. There are new wave songs like Three Dancers which are fine and catchy, showing how earely the band really was and giving us a couple decent tunes in that vein. But they don't sound a thing like what neo-prog is supposed to sound like. As well, the ten-minute epic Creepshow barely has any prog in it, and the funky guitars of Fur Helene Part II are the farthest thing from the tag, and the experimentation might as well just warrant the experimental rock tag if anything, and none of the experimentation is anything beyond palatable. In fact, I liked the demo version off of SKAN more, because it sounded a lot like TRANCE, as in EDM, and trance hadn't been invented until 11 years later by Astralasia. Here, it just sounds like a long, basic rock track. On top of which, there's barely any melody involved that stands out, and sometimes the singer doesn't really know what he's doing. This album is a basic-level rock album that goes for strengths but doesn't try hard enough with any of them.

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