PUDDING EN GISTEREN [AKA: PUDDING & YESTERDAY]

Supersister were one of those bands who liked to keep the sense of humour in Canterbury-inspired progressive rock, and Pudding en Gisteren is an excellent example of that. The first side consists of a range of shorter, more whimsical tracks (well, "Shorter" is a relative term - Judy Goes on Holiday is 12 minutes long), whilst the title track is a side-long experimental number that gives the more serious side of the group's music a workout. Even the most commercial-sounding of the shorter songs, opening track Radio, has some unexpected twists and turns, and on the whole it's a solid followup to their classic first two albums.

That said, whilst it doesn't embarrass itself next to its predecessors, it doesn't really develop Supersister's music very much compared to them - the greatest departures, if anything, are the shorter pieces (Radio and Psychopath), which whilst whimsical aren't actually as compelling as the group's more complex material. Of the albums released by the original Supersister lineup, I find this one the least compelling.