FLYTE

This album, while holding several symph number also features several harder or more art-rock oriented music : "Aim At The Head" or "Your Breath Enjoyer" for instance which style is difficult to identify. The song goes in too many directions. It changes from style almost every thirty seconds.

Throughout this album, there are lots of keys of course, but guitar as well like like during "Dawn Dancer". Usually with an almost hard attack.

"Heavy, Like a Child" is probably the weakest song on this album. The opener being the most attractive one, while the instrumental "Grace" features nice mellotron and a powerful melody. Great guitar break as well.

Lyrics for "You're Free, I Guess" are very poor. It's a pity because the instrumental parts are quite good. The very pompous "King of Clouds" is appealing as well. Aerial vocals and very melodic guitar. Background keyboards are superb. This is the most symphonic song of this album and the one I prefer.

The closing number should have been an all instrumental. Vocals are pretty weak.

If you can make abstraction of some poor vocals, this album might please you. Nothing essential though. Three stars.

Best tracks are "Aim at the head", "Your breath enjoyer" both with the Hammils like vocal !!! Also good number is the next one "King of clouds".

So I give this album 3,5 stars without a doubt.

The sound from this one shot band (rooted in the early Seventies and disbanded in 1981) is melodic and the compositions are alternating: the tracks "Woman", Aim at your head" and "Your breath enjoyer" contain lots of howling guitar and lush keyboards. More dreamy and rather compelling are "Heavy like a child", King of clouds" and the highlight "Brain damage" featuring beautiful duo-keyboard work and wonderful electric guitarplay. This album has echoes from Camel, it often sounds like guest appearances from Latimer and Barden! The rating for this album changes from 2 stars (from a crafty but far too venomous and sarcastic person who nailed Museo Rosenbach and England so I don't take that very seriously!) and 4 stars, I keep it on 3 stars: a decent and pleasant progrock album, no more or less.

The vocals are hopeless, a ridiculously histrionic lunatic attempting to cover up his lack of vocal range. It doesn't help that the English lyrics are beyond silly. "Be my day's destroyer, I'm your breath enjoyer", and that's not even the worst of what's here.

Quite unsurprisingly, the high point of the whole album is "Grace", an instrumental.

Best Avoided - this is coming from a Belgian.