PERFECT BEINGS

Perfect crossover prog album? You can't get much closer to perfection.

The album starts off with two songs, The Canyon Hill and Helicopter that set the listener up for an XTC-like quirky pop experience. Now I enjoy XTC quite a bit, and these tracks drew me in, but for a masterpiece of prog, staying on this course would not have led there.

Bees And Wasps introduces a 10CC-ish reggae sound, with 10CC-ish inventive sounds. Nice. Another art-rock band that I love.

But the album takes off with Walkabout, which starts out somewhat spacy, but transitions with a Johannes Luley guitar lick that sounds exactly like Steve Howe, in both tone and form. The compositions build into a more definitive prog as well, with Chris Tristam's Squire-like bass lines and Jesse Nason's mix of Tony Banks' simplistic but tasteful keyboard lines and Rick Wakeman's soaring synths. And did I hear a Mellotron?

At it's heights' the album is reminiscent of Yes circa "Going For The One", but there are also pieces that bring to mind Pink Floyd and even Mike Keneally.

This album has been on my continuous playlist for a couple of months now, and should be my primary "driving with the windows open and the stereo turned way up" disk for the summer.

Easily the best new album I've heard this year.

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