ADVENTURES IN NEVERLAND

Strange situation....TR one per middle take out a good album. Awakening...so so....Dark Angel...gooood....Adverse Camber...bad....a retrocess .

Now we have A In N ....a quite lighter album than the before ones . With a remarkable mixture of styles....neo-prog and heavy prog...but mostly folk prog...(some passages in the style of Mostly Autumn)

A musical Adventure in TR Land ...a good adventure...nice songs...

So a good improvement for TR.

In my opinion good news from The Reasoning (I was very disappointed with Adverse Camber)

So now : 4 well deserved stars.

This sort of music used to appeal to me, but these days it honestly makes me feel mildly nauseous. The Reasoning are prog in the loosest sense of the term - they do the bare minimum in song lengths and solos per 90 to get the classification, but really this reminds me more of a fourth-rate Fleetwood Mac clone than any progressive band. The vocals are just so empty and banal, even if the tune they're singing isn't too bad. I don't really think anything on this is poor, but it's so painfully unremarkable that it leaves a bit of a sour taste.

3.7 (3rd listen)

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