ONES & ZEROS - VOLUME 0

The "problem" with 3RDegree is they raise the bar-on themselves(!)-from album to album so much so that you think they've done the best they could with a release and it hits you the right way and you rate it highly. But then a few years pass and they cast a shadow on that album you loved with another one that is a notch more mature and accomplished. With most bands starting off strong and then petering our over time with crowds clamoring for "the old stuff", 3RDegree are in very much the opposite position. I think you either get these guys or you don't. Maybe some will straddle the fence but not many.

So the album I'm talking about is Ones & Zeros Volume 0 and it's a very pleasing hour plus long ride that's somehow all things thought provoking, melodic, complex and memorable. Somehow it's aurally timeless yet lyrically very much in the present-possibly a bit ahead of it!