FOR KING AND COUNTRY

Cyan

Neo-Prog

4.16 | 47 ratings

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How can nobody have written about this? It's truly exceptional.

I heard THE SORCERER on Prog magazine's last free CD, and it's 15 minutes of pure Prog pleasure. The subject matter seemed a bit pretentious, and even the music to begin with... but once you're into it... oh my word. It's so upbeat, Full of Prog instrumentation, and then there's PETER JONES' voice, which is SO good.

This latest album is a re-working of an album that originated in 1993, with all instruments having been played by one ROBERT REED. This time, Reed has a full band behind him and there are really no weaknesses.

As the album progresses one can only be impressed by Jones' voice, it's astonishing really. But that also does the band a disservice. The instrumental song SNOWBOUND features some excellent band interplay, which is rare to hear these days.

In fact, you also get a DVD when you buy the CD and the tightness of the bass when heard on that (in stereo, as I haven't got 5.1 surround sound) is wonderful. Soundwise, they're probably more like Transatlantic than any thing, only much better, and with that voice of Peter Jones, well...

And then we reach the final and title track, FOR KING AND COUNTRY. Although modern military voices are heard in the background one can't help but think of WW1 tommies and the trenches. Anyway, after a subdued start we will head off to a rousing finale as the band go through the gears searching for a climatic ending. Do they get there? The feet tapping suggests that they do, and what's more, once FOR KING AND COUNTRY recedes into the past you'll be putting on THE SORCERER again to start the whole show again.

To be honest, if it hadn't had been on that demo CD I'd probably have missed the boat here. Instead, I DID find it and I'm very glad that I did. And Peter Jones' voice is a revelation, it really is.

sussexbowler | 4/5 | 2022-2-3

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