ADVENTURE

Feeling a bit like a dry run for the rather more rich and substantial Voyage, Brainticket's Adventure finds the band reconvening after some time apart for one more jam session. With an acoustic, minimalistic approach, it's a far cry from the hyperactive tripped-out psychedelic madness of Cottonwoodhill, and whilst the world music influences are just enough to stop it getting downright boring, they aren't quite enough to make it interesting. The thing is, the likes of Popol Vuh had already covered this territory years before and already moved on and developed it further than Brainticket do here, so the album sounds dated - indeed, it'd have sound kind of unoriginal and ho-hum even if it had come out five years earlier.