THE INCIDENT

I picked up this album after seeing the number od five star reviews (fifty four percent at this writing) here at this site. I expected an amazing masterpiece of progness. And the sticker on the case said it features a fifty five minute epic. Wow! Would I get a fantastic long pice of the caliber of Echolyn's Mei? Sorry, no.

What is billed as one long piece is actually fourteen shorter songs, all strung together, as you would find on a Zappa or Rundgren album. There seems to be little continuity between the pieces, no musical theme that connects them. Just a bunch of songs. And the progressiveness, to me, seems to be lacking. While there are some good prog sections, like the title section, The Incident and Octane Twisted, and two stand-alone songs on teh second CD, Bonnie the Cat (no relation to Tommy) and Remember Me Lover, most of the songs on the album are slightly-more-inventive-than-average alternative rock, or even (gasp) emo. Some a bit too whiny sounding for my tastes.

And the song I hear the most about, Time Flies sound so much like a rip off of Pink Floyd's Animals, that it makes me want to listen to that superior album instead.

So while there is enough good material on this album to listen to, there is no way I could call this a masterpiece, or even close to one.

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