CAUTIONARY TALES FOR THE BRAVE

The first taste of the greatness that The Dark Third would later deliver. Just as on that album the centerpiece here is the PRR tour de force The Bright Ambassadors of Morning, bookended by slightly less ambitious, but equally appealing pieces.

As noted by other reviewers (and by myself in the review of The Dark Third), this isn't horriffically complex, nor are the individual elements that remarkable, but the whole is both original, layered and challenging. And it just sound effortless, as if this style wasn't something they have been working on, but rather just stumbled into.

One of the best discoveries of 2005.