RETROPOLIS

If the title track was not there this would be a farce of prog . This is well played but every bit seems to be borrowed from the 70's giants. Did you say plagiarism ? This title track is ELP-ish , the next two remind you of UK meets Yes but in the 3rd provincial league of progball! And so on....... Not one second of this album sounds as if it might be coming from them!

This got good reviews as it came out of this Swedish boom of the 90's . I wonder how this will fare twenty years later. One could call this reto-prog without a problem. What gets me the most is that they do not seem even enthusiaitic at what they do! they just seem to go through the motions.

I saw them in Verviers the first time they came around and they were not able to reproduce the title track correctly on stage , I had understood and suffered the rest of the concert. If I remember well , this was the very first prog concert at the Spirit of 66 in Verviers and now , this has been the temple of prog for Belgium for about 8 years.