The (psyc-prog) 1st album of this experimental band is fairly good. Nearly every track after Return to Zanzibar is thoroughly enjoyable, esp Caroline (even w/ all the romance-themed songs). Some may gripe how this album doesn't sound all too different from bands playing these very genres mentioned w/in the same decade. Even so, this band has a sound that tempts to go a little further w/ their experimentation. I imagine w/in experimentation, this group is slowly manipulating the "sound of the times," then manipulating and mending that sound into something different (or to put it bluntly "unique"). I feel those hints of industrial rock in this album (every track after Riding You), but those little glimmers do not persuade me to grade this album any higher...
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