COMING BACK (AS ARDEN HOUSE)

after having listened to their Zoldar and Clark LP I had to listen to this one eventually, just out of curiosity. After a spin or 2...I like it. Both the Jasper Wrath and Zoldar and Clark LP's are very appealing to my ears. So, we come to what is basically the 2nd album in the series, once again with a new band name. What we get is another evolution of the sound. Whereas Jasper Wrath was a Psychedelic LP with prog elements, Z&C was a proggish LP with more modern 80's tendencies. On side 1 of this at least, we get a couple 80's sounding pop-wave clunkers and a couple decent AOR rockers. Side 2 is much more a late 70's proggy sound closer to the vein of Zoldar and Clark with a dose of Horn/Downes era Yes in the mix (don't let that scare you). That makes me think this includes leftover tracks from different eras and would not surprise me on a tax scam label. Based on my tastes, I'd give this a borderline 4.0 for S2 for some over the top pompous space-synths and nice guitars on the longer tracks and a 3.0 for S1, and thus we split the difference on the whole affair at a 3.5 but after giving it more listening I'll give it a 4.0 One point to make here though, is that both of those aforementioned LP's are growers. These guys could definitely write a hook and a song, regardless of style.4.0 but leaning towards 3.5

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