GARDEN SHED

This is a very good album but unfortunately too late in the cycle and it had all been done before. In the same way that Cathedral was imitating Genesis, England were directly copying Yes. They do a darn good job and the composition is nice but the instrumentation, slap Squire bass and Anderson copy vocals are just too much to ignore. Many have said they would have been great a few years earlier but I seriously doubt they would come up with this on their own and indeed were just parroting. I do very much like the album and if I am overfamiliar with Fragile or Close to the Edge and am in the mood this is a nice substitute. But can never be more than 3 stars due to lack of originality. I still like it but it is "Good but non essential" Proof of my theory is they never really did much more than this and what they did wasn't as good. I do recommend the listen, it's nice!