ROBIN DELLE STELLE

The first Consorzio Acqua Potabile album had decent compositions but lacked the production to really bring out their best aspects; Robin delle Stelle, the followup, has the reverse problem, whereby the album has a pretty good production but the compositions aren't so hot this time around. Don't get me wrong, they capture the golden age of Italian prog wonderfully in a sort of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso meets Emerson Lake and Palmer sort of a way. It's just that they don't really find anything interesting to do with that sound once they've captured it, so they just noodle around with it a bit before they set it free again.