MIDWAY

• Ivan Hood the White Knight Everything You Need, 1972
• Including Revelation Midway, 1973
• When I Depart Destiny, 2010

For my money, this is Abacus' most underrated album. True, beyond the excellent, lengthy, largely instrumental title track, there's not much prog, but it's definitely much more alive than EVERYTHING YOU NEED was. And much more of that Kinks-y charm that oozed through the better moments of said predecessor. Chris Williams is in fine voice throughout.

"11 Garden" is this particular album's "quirky tune". "Let's Face The Voices and Dance" and "Including Revelation" are virtually two parts of a whole, with the same fine guitar rhythm throughout. Nice synth work on "For The Moment", too.

Send comments to Progbear (BETA) | Report this review (#43518) | Review Permalink
Posted Saturday, August 20, 2005

The song 'Midway' is good enough and definitely the highlight of this cd, up until that point, the album is filler and feel-good songs that hold no lasting value. I can't give the album 1 stars because none of it is really unenjoyable, but none of it is particularly good. The musicianship is sub- ... (read more)

Report this review (#788495) | Posted by MJAben | Sunday, July 15, 2012 | Review Permanlink

Not so far ago,I was at an auction,spending my time looking for some good old seventies progrock to buy and I came across one of my friends who had nice stuff to sell:Asoka,Flower Travellin Band, Brainticket and so on.This friend was talking with another seller who wanted to trade this Abacus re ... (read more)

Report this review (#168296) | Posted by fusionfreak | Monday, April 21, 2008 | Review Permanlink

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