OTHER CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS II

A decade ago I bought this album by the band I thought was quite famous at the time and hoped it would be good. Later on I discovered the progarchives track Bug Eye which more or less proved to be what I also hoped from this album of 1997. But what a huge difference in style and quality it proved to be.

I played it once or twice after I bought it but can still remember neglecting it from then on because of the disappointment it appeared to be. This album is a poor effort because of the very low grade of progressiveness it contains. It starts off fairly nice with Session one with some good guitarwork in two songs that just stand the test of quality (3 stars at best). But from then on it just gets poorer and poorer ending up as an album with very accessible music, so accessible that we are dealing with plain pop music it seems and then not even good pop music. That's not why I buy progressive albums !

So because of this essential fact (at least for me) I cannot give this anymore than two stars and absolutely don't recommend this to those who (like me) are much delighted with the Bug Eye sort of music by this band.