THROUGH AND THROUGH

Strangely enough, this album became less interesting the more I listened to it. Yet I liked it the first time I heard it. I bought it in preperation for NearFest 2001, and as I said above, repeated listens made it less and less likeable. After seeing them perform at NearFest, I never pulled the album out again. Until this review. My feelings have not changed, though I still the like the song, The Doorman, and I still think they can be credited with a very original compositional style that is still very recognizable as "prog". I think that initially, I felt the complex and unique song structures would grow on me and that I would discover more with more listens. This was not the case, and the album became tiresome to me, and playing it again recently has only had the same result. I rate this about 2 1/2 stars, but because of originality I will round up to 3.