NEO WAY

Second album by promising Polish band AMAROK with guest appearance of CAMEL bass player Colin Bass unfortunately does not contain much interesting stuff in terms of prog at least in its first half. Tracks 1 to 7 are guitar-based instrumental ones more or less in a mainstream rock vein, quite reminiscent of Mark Knopfler, sometimes of David Gilmour's solo work. Second half of the album consisting of the multi-part title track becomes slightly more attractive to me. The seven parts are presenting instrumental music with some backing vocals very much in an Oldfield vein. Nothing to criticize concerning performance or production, both are brilliant. Just the complete lack of innovation and inspiration keeps me off giving this record more than 2 stars. Let's hope for their next output.