TIME AND TIDE

I do not belong to the ones who rate an album thanks for its packaging. So, even if the cover of this work is rather original and inventive, I can't say the same about its content.

I have never been overwhelmed with the band, and this last effort sounds really as a pitiful goodbye. Almost, I would say since ''Greenslade'' will do a come back some twenty-five years later. But that's another story.

The music available on ''Time & Tide'' won't be remembered IMHHO. But little of this band will. They used to play a decent prog music with some very good dual keyboards at best. I can't say the same about this work. The first track which is worth a mention is the atmospheric ''Time''.

This album is an ultra short effort of about half an hour, and one can only be thankful that it is so short. There is really nothing fancy about this recording. I won't be as generous as some other reviewers who believe that this work is excellent. I just feel like it is rather poor.

If a band is not able to produce ONE great track out of only thirty two minutes of ''music'', I guess that they faced some MAJOR problems in their song writing. The cream being in the pudding since they will call it quit afterwards. Not a bad decision to be honest. When you have to bear a track like ''The Flattery Stakes'' you got it all: press next my prog friends. It is the only advice I can provide.

All tracks available are stupidly short except ''Catalan'' which can be considered as the least awful one available here. Vocals are globally one of the poorest you can ever have imagined. Have a listen to the dreadful ''Waltz For A Fallen Idol'' to figure out.

I am quite perplexed to read that this album should be considered as their best work. I just believe it is a bad album and the poorest ''Greenslade'' one released so far. One star, no more. Just forget this weak album. Boredom, boredom.