VISIONS

Visions is a collection of charming prog instrumentals by multi-instrumentalist Steve Gresswell and guitarist Phil Braithwaite, doing business as The Inner Road. The album is clearly a labour of love and has a few rough edges here and there - the production, whilst competent enough, isn't exactly finely polished, and some of Gresswell's keyboard tones feel a little low-budget, though the duo do an admirable job of working with these limitations by crafting compositions which work well within the production constraints and sound good with the occasionally quirky keys. Reminiscent of a more ornate and baroque version of The Lens, what I glimpse in Visions gives me high hopes for the project's future output.