IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON

Their second album, on which the line-up from the debut album has changed on some accounts. In fact, the band generally was a mess in the first few years, but it has brought excellent music, strangely. It's a tad better than the debut album and explores some more ground. The changes are marked with Cat Food, a strange jazzy song with dissonant piano which actually became a small hit in Holland and Devil's Triangle, which is the first of many lengthy, exploring instrumentals in a long line. It's also one of the eeriest tracks ever, starting with a long build-up and eventually going through all kinds of evil-sounding changes and weird sounds. Much of the other tracks essentially replicate the sound from the debut, but in a more delicate and refined way. The 30th Anniversary Remaster contains 2 bonus tracks in the form of the single edit of Cat Food and it's excellent, fiery flipside Groon, and these sensibly appear 1 minute after the rest of the album. This album is highly recommended for people familiar with the Bruford-Fripp-Cross-other line-up and wanting to delve into the earlier stuff.