They show flashes of eccentricity at times, like most bands do, but it usually just devolves into bluesy rock rif***e. Take Larks Tongues in Aspic for example, it's like stadium rock mixed with Comus, heavier on the former. I was expecting more technicality or experimentation but instead I heard more average prog fare. It's a product of their reputation I guess, everyone hypes them up to be the second coming and they can't possibly live up to it. I dont see the heavy jazz instrumentation or the baroque classics being incorporated as well as they are billed to be. I see alot of rock experimentation, but not the bridging of genres that they supposedly accomplished.
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