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Ethos play in a style with touches from a range of prog groups of the era - there's some very Chris Squire bass from Brad Stephenson and Robert Fripp guitar from Will Sharpe, for instance - with an overall sound reminiscent of a looser and more ragged around the edges take on classic Yes mingled with Lizard-era King Crimson, with an injection of mercurial unpredictability which serves their ends well. And what Yesalike would be complete without a little hippy-dippy New Agery - in this case, coming in the form of the Utopian vision of Sedona, whilst non-prog influences creep in with material like the glam rock-ish Pimp CIty. In short, an interesting little package which would surely have received more attention had it come out four years or so earlier, but isn't especially revolutionary.