IMPRESSIONS OF A CITY

The duo of Steve McCann and Randy Dawdy moved on to a second album in 1979 with the title ''Impressions Of A City''.They recorded the album in their own studio and this was actually dedicated to their hometown home town of London, Ontario.

The whole opening side of the LP consists of the eponymous 19-min. prog suite, divided in six parts, where finally the duo offers some decent musicianship.A good Symphonic Rock composition with strong E.L.P. influences and multiple keyboard arrangements as well as some cool guitar parts.The vocals remain a bit cheesy and the production is unfortunately of a basement level, hurting the diverse keyboard work of McCann, still this tracks contains plenty of fine instrumental themes with strong harsichord parts, jazzy piano lines and nervous synths.

The flipside is unfortunately disastrous.The quality drops significantly and Busker show again their horrible, cheesy side with tons of dull moments offered in a mix of light Prog, Pop Rock and Soul-Funk.Tracks like ''Mexico'', ''Copacabana'' or ''Tell Me You Love Me'' sound absolutely childish with awful brass sections, amateur keyboard parts and cliche, syrupy choruses of the worst quality.

A very uneven album of minor interest, still a bit better than their bad debut due to the decent performances on the long opening prog suite.Recommended only for die-hard fans of Symphonic Rock.