IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON

This poor album is often dismissed as a repeat of their groundbreaking debut, and overlooked as a copycat version of their original; nevermind that it is actually better. I find more interesting things going on in this album than in their debut, but either one of them is likely to put me to sleep. If, for no other reason, this album deserves five stars (compared to In the Courts 4) because of their highly successful and very creative rendention of Gustav Holst's Mars, and the beautiful title track In the Wake of Poseidon. I find both of these tracks to be more interesting than anything on the previous album. The moments where they release the tension and go into little jazzy experiments are what I find most intriguing, and this approach would continue to executed in fuller force in later albums.