BEWARE OF DARKNESS

Highly overrated. Their cover of the George Harrison song is the highpoint of the album. It quickly goes downhill from there. Spock's Beard is the epitome of all "neo-prog" bands that simply fall back on the tired, old cliches of prog music. It's all been done before, so why do it again? Prog became a "genre" when Yes made TORMATO. Up until then, it was just great bands experimenting with classical, jazz, and rock idioms and coming up with some amazingly new and - hey, PROGRESSIVE - stuff. Now, prog is like fusion - it's an endless set of repititions, performed by obviously technically adept musicians. Almost like these bands are trying to win awards, rather than make good music. A yawner, fer sure.