BRIDGE ACROSS FOREVER

The second album by modern prog's premier supergroup continues where the first album left off. It showcases the four talented members in three excellent epic pieces, the shortest clocking in at over thirteen minutes.

While all three epic tracks are credited to the entire group, it seems that Neal Morse was the primary composer. All three pieces bear a strong resemblance to some of Spock's Beard's works (not a bad thing), and the last epic,Strange In Your Soul sound like a few riffs were lifted from The Great Nothing from The Beard's "V" album. Also, Morse does the majority of the singing, and while he's not bad, I wish he would do less of that pinched sounding inflection, that gives him a tone somewhere between Tom Petty and Popeye.

The other track on the album, a slow, boring piano ballad by Morse, I can do without. It really feels out of place on this otherwise great album.