ARGENT

Argent's self titled debut is a fairly assured album but musically is still closer to what the Zombies produced than the heavy rock/prog crossover sound which would define their sound as the decade progressed. "Like Honey" is a great opener with powerful arpeggiated guitar opening and prominent organ backing and some excellent harmony vocals. Probably the best known track on the album is Russ Ballard's "Liar which was covered successfully by Three Dog Night.The song set a precedent whereby other artist's would have hits with Argent's songs.Infact I cannot think of another band who have been so heavily covered without being major successes themselves-something which always bothered Russ Ballard. The rest of the songs are fairly good but really this album belongs to the 60's -lots of simple verse-chorus songs with very little in the way of instrumental development and as such cannot really be considered a very Prog album

Worth a listen though

3 stars