FANFARE & FANTASY

Fanfare and Fantasy is a rare case when an album that is more sprawling than its predecessor (Disobey, which is not half bad either) is even catchier and more immediate. Songs are longer (half are over 8 minutes long), but so are the solos and melodic hooks. Comedy of Errors brings nothing new to neo-prog, though it has a powerful and punchy production, and treads the familiar genre grounds - the broken heart romantic, the whimsical and politically indignant, the pompous balladry and the Celtic touches (the band is from Scotland). But the lads deliver their stuff with such energy and conviction (if not exactly fastness and brevity), that its infectious.