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Pendragon

Neo-Prog

2.67 | 285 ratings

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Checking out all of the negative reception this album gets, I figured there were either three possibilities:

1. The prog compositions are tired and familiar. 2. It's too conventional and poppy to be prog. 3. It's a little bit of both.

It was 3.

These guys got a live album one year after their debut where they played the album with some other songs, and then they degraded to this? I'm wondering if it was the idea of getting popular that lead to it. There was really nothing that intriguing or interesting about the album until it scratched the surface of prog in the second half. And even then, most of the AOR and pop songs were pretty standard for that genre as well, using overproduced reverb to do the job. Thankfully, as people say, they would get their neo-prog back in full force on the next album, because I can't even call this one neo-prog. I just can't.

Rexorcist | 3/5 | 2025-2-25

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