IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON

How would you do a follow-up to an awesome debut? It must be hard. But they surely did so, and in a very nice way. And I would tell more, this album is quite similar to ITCOTCK... only 'Cat Food' is out of focus, but in the other hand, this good song anticipates a bit the vein of their next album Lizard. Anyway, on the rest of the album you can find many links with its predeccessor:

- The album starts with the beautiful Peace - A Beggining, which's sung a capella. Then, Pictures of a City begins, very loudly in contrast to the previous track. This song is perhaps the most well-known of the album and is exactly in the vein of 21th Century Schizoid Man from ITCOTCK: rocker, distorted and with crazy interludes full of rhythmic breaks; amazing.

- The nex track, Cadence & Cascade, is an extremely beautiful acoustic tune. Great interplay between piano, guitar and flute. Quite similar to I Talk to the Wind. Peaceful and slow-paced. A highlight, for sure.

- The self-titled track is a clone of Epitaph, or at least it could be seen as I do. Same atmosphere, dramatic, same rhythm. Although it differs in the prescence of the mellotron; it's much more driven by mellotron than Epitaph. But practically a clone track.

An acoustic instrumental interlude featuring the excellent Robert Fripp on guitar, dividing both sides of the album: Peace - A Theme. It's the same opening track but instrumental; no vocals. The next track is Cat Food, an already mentioned track which isn't similar at all to any earlier stuff. This is a very jazzy tune, with excellent piano good vocal work.

The Devil's Triangle is maybe my personal favourite, although not extremely suitable for the average listener, I mean, I couldn't have lunch while listening to this song.... It's a permanent crescendo, a continuous climax; it also isn't similar to an ITCOTCK song in particular, but has the instrumental parts alright. This track could fit very well into a movie as a scary soundtrack, hehehe..... Impressive, trust me.

Finally the album ends with a sort of blend between the two previous `Peace's: it has vocals (very good lyrics) and instrumental parts, again acoustic guitar. The perfect closer, although the previous track would probably fit perfectly as a closer track too. But who cares?!

What else could a proghead expect for? Stop reading reviews of this (mine included), get it and fall in love with this awesome album!

Cosick.