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DISOBEY

Comedy Of Errors

 

Neo-Prog

3.95 | 296 ratings

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pinkfloyd75
5 stars I saw this band for the first time last year when they played at The Summers End Festival and I bought Disobey on the strength of a fantastic live performance. I thought they were the best band who were on the bill and should have been one of the headline acts. The album kicks off with a rather nice intro of reverse loop keyboard which then blasts into the title track Disobey. This is a stunning opening track and was wondering how they would follow it. A great number 2 track called Jekyll with great synths and soaring vocals shows that this band are indeed worthy of a big pat on the back for keeping the faith in prog music. An instrumental track Prelude Riff and Fugue is an outstanding piece of renaissance type of music and the guitar work by Mark Spalding is amongst the best I have ever heard. I'd love to hear them try this one live. Carousel is the longest track and is an interchanging track of magical proprtions. Its followed by an out and out rock track which appears to mock the USA's corporate greed. I'm not sure whether its maybe a little out of place here on a prog album but its still a great rock ditty. Could Have Been Yesterday is a little bit AOR but fits nicely and is followed by a short instrumental Ailsa's Lullaby which is basically a very nice piano piece. Joke is a great slow ballad type which once again shows the difference in styles that these guys can produce. The last track is a prog masterpiece of epic portions. Although it is split into 4 parts, each one complements the other and they are all unique in there own way. This is the standout track and if I had to choose one for my favourite then it would have to be part 3. This has a great hook in the vocal chorus part and it takes quite a while to come in the song but when it does, it blows you away. I had to check out Comedy Of Errors on the website as I knew nothing about them. It would appear that although they were around in the 80's, they disbanded and only resurfaced a few years ago to record Disobey. This to me is a fantastic 5 star album and a welcome edition to any true prog fans collection. The band appears to have 3 original members, Jim Johnston on keyboards, Mark Spalding on guitars and Joe Cairney on vocals. If the three of them can still produce magic like this then there is hope yet for the prog market.
pinkfloyd75 | 5/5 |

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