DANCING MADLY BACKWARDS

So Far Away: If you imagine it with violin and a different arrangement, it could be a Kansas song. It's quite interesting, since it starts as a mainstream rocker and in the middle it changes structure significantly, showing its prog elements. Pretty good start!

Astral Love: Supertramp is the first band that came to mind with this piano and brass intro. As long as it goes on, it seems very close to Pavlov's Dog "At the Sound of the Bell", which was released 2 years after Dancing Madly Backwards was recorded! Astral Love is a very beautiful Symphonic/Art song, it deserves the attention of every fan of the genre(s)!

727 Suite: Typical Symphonic Prog sample, could also be found in Pavlov's Dog's At the Sound of the Bell. It won me over, and I played it again. Not a bad album so far, on the contrary!

Firewheel: Sounds beautiful at first, but at 5:39 it doesn't offer anything special. It could be only 3 minutes long and be "just another song". Probably the most indifferent so far.

Dancing Madly Backwards: Beautiful and pompous song, but it suffers from the same problem as the previous one: it does not justify its duration, which in this case exceeds 9 minutes. I would have expected more with this length, not so much repetition.

Vahalla: Here we have a typo from the company, the title is Valhalla and not Vahalla. Axcraft's sound is grafted with elements of Hawkwind here, in a slow song with heavy climaxes, which doesn't leave any particular mark to me.

Love Is Blue: Psychedelic heavy ballad, that sounds more like the late 60s than anything else on this album. Its crescendo is both expected and dull to my ears.

Rating: Until 727 Suite I thought the album was going for 3 stars, but it ends up at 2. We hear a band that is finding its feet, playing a little bit of everything, and finally ends up without an identity, while its call seems to have been clearly in Pavlov's Dog-like Symphonic Prog, which I personally love. Would they have managed to become great in this genre if they continued? We'll never know?

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