GARDEN SHED

This album is considered a classic worthy of the great progressive rock groups of the 1970s. In my opinion, it remains very far from the latter. There is clearly a desire to do well at the origin of this music. The compositions are subtly worked but the talent of the musicians is not at the required level in my opinion.

The former first side is weak to my mind. Of course, there are keyboard arpeggios that remind you of Tony Banks. But the whole thing is clumsy. Without doubt the musicians of Genesis and Yes would have made an album of a much higher level from these same compositions. The mix is unbalanced, the rhythm section is surprisingly loud.

We think more of Klaatu and Queen on certain vocal parts. We can also see some reference to Gentle Giant here and there.

We have to wait for the former side 2 of the disc to perceive the influence of Yes and Genesis. At the beginning of "Yellow", the keyboards can recall some passages of "Revealing science of god" and then it leads to an acoustic guitar clearly influenced by "And you and I", then an ethereal electric guitar in the style of Steve Howe. "Yellow" is, in my opinion, the most beautiful piece on the record. "Poisoned youth" is a good mix of Yes and Genesis, with a touch of King Crimson from the "Epitaph" period.

Because of the composition work, I'm still rounding up to 3 the 2.5 stars that I think I should give it,