BEWARE OF DARKNESS

Spock´s Beard is without a doubt one of my favourites prog band, but in my humble opinion they have failed along the years in creating a true masterpiece. "Beware of Darkness" was close, like "The Light", but for me it lacks something else...

Beware of Darkness it´s a very fine George Harrison´s cover, with a marvellous Hammond solo by the great Ryo Okumoto. This album was the first with Ryo on keyboards...And it´s was in improvement, for sure!

Thougths is a good tune, but this choirs in the Gentle Giant style are a little ridiculous for me...

The Doorwar is maybe the perfect Spock´s Beard song. Very catchy, with a good mixture of electric and acoustic sections, a strong bass, great keyboard solo...And a good Neal Morse´s singing, although in this time he had not reached yet his best level with singing...

Chatauqua it´s just a fast aocustic song, beautiful but forgettable...

Walking of the Wing is the second and last true jewel in the album. Another great song with powerful bass lines and a great organ introduction. In the same style as The Doorway, and almost as good.

Waste Away is just a rocking short track, in the same style of another Spock´s songs like On The Edge or All on a Sunday. Nothing special, but pretty enjoyable.

Time Has Come it´s a long suite, but with the same problem as the song The Water of the previous album: good sometimes, but not very good sometimes, with lack of inspiration...In my opinion Spock´s Beard they really don´t learned to make good long suites (more than 15 minutes...) till the album "V". But Time Has Come it´s still a good song based in Stephen King´s "Dance of Death", thing that make it interesting for me, because I´m a King´s fan!

Conclusion: excellent album with really brilliant moments, but with some weak parts that don´t allow it being a masterpiece. Nevertheless, heartly recommended for all prog fans!