THE SENTINEL

Pallas' first studio album finds them refining their sound quickly from their debut live "Arrive alive" release, helped in no small part by Eddie Offord assuming production duties. Only the live album's title track survives as a studio track, and is something of a weak link here.

Euan Lowson's distinctive vocals help to give the album something of a unique quality. The band are often compared to Yes, Genesis, Rush, and even Arena, but any influences those bands had on the music of Pallas is well disguised. The quality of the tracks improves as the album goes on, "Rise and fall part 1" introducing a linked suite of tracks in the best prog style.

The final three tracks are the best. Each clocks in at 7-8 minutes and features majestic instrumentation. The finale to the penultimate track "Atlantis" sounds very much like the conclusion of the album, such is the build up and the all hands to the pumps structure. At the start of the actual last track, "Ark of infinity" Lowson does a deadringer for Greg Lake, the track rounding off things with the hope that more of the same was to come on future albums.

An excellent first studio album. The remastered CD includes and interesting CD-ROM section.

(Thanks to my friend Tommy for introducing me to Pallas.)

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