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ONES & ZEROS - VOLUME 03RDegreeCrossover Prog4.07 | 270 ratings |
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Xonty
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Well, this is such an unnecessary release- anything that's at best mediocre has already been done to
death by the majority of prog groups out there. I initially checked out the album as I saw it was in the top
25 crossover prog records, and remembering that I wasn't repelled by 3rdegree on my previously listen
of Ones and Zeros volume 1 (they still didn't leave a strong impression) I thought I'd give them another
chance. However, like many of these slightly esoteric new releases, the ProgArchives rating algorithm
permits this to be above ALL Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Radiohead, Pavlov's Dog, Procol Harum etc within
this subgenre alone. I've been away from the ProgArchives community for some time especially
regarding reviews, but this really needs some correcting. Harmonically, lyrically and timbrally completely
unstimulating, without any remotely notable technicality, production or compositional skills to hold it up.
Merely another revivalist album but one that sounds like a dull, bastardised combination of B-sides from
the Big Six maybe. Perhaps acceptable if this emerged in the neo-prog scene around the time of
Marillion but for 2018?! Very low 2/5 rating. 'Best' moments probably the overture, and some sections in 'Click Away' although it's unnecessarily lengthy, worst moments in 'Olympia' and 'perfect babies', mainly since they're probably the weakest lyrically (Olympia does have a nice twist on a backdoor cadence that repeats but doesn't exploit it effectively at all). Never again.
Xonty |
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