TIME OF LEGENDS

I waited quite a while with this review because I had doubts about the rating for this album. And I have doubts between 3 and 4 stars. The debut was a clear 4 star effort for me and Conflicts and dreams is a masterpiece in my opinion but trouble with Time of Legends is it's the least effort of the three to me because a real highlight is not present on this album, a difference compared to the other two.

On the other hand I am a huge Cairo fan and feel I will sell them short by giving three. And this is not a poor effort at all, I just wanted to show that this is their least album of the three. Still more than 2/3 of this release is very much worthwhile and then I'm talking about the first two and the last two songs which make abudently clear that this is a fantastic band and I can certainly recommend this to fans of ELP who would like that band to play a bit faster. By the way, I also think Brett Douglas is a better vocalist than Greg Lake and Mark Robertson is definitely a match for Keith Emerson. So if you don't know this band yet these can be reasons to check them out.

In the meantime I made up my mind for the rating: I give it 4 (3,6).