BBT are standard bearers for modern prog, with a sound that evokes the spirit of those legendary 70s bands whilst managing to also be thoroughly contemporary. It's astonishing that over 30 minutes of music of this quality, with such high production values, is being made available for free - and their full albums are also very reasonably priced... Eleventh Earl of Blah
Imagine Landberk from Sweden wouldn't have split after their phenomenal "Indian Summer" (one of my favourite albums of 1996 if not the whole decade), but switched to Italian (mostly female) vocals, instead.
If that doesn't mean anything to you: Beautifully crafted songs, nice instrumtation (Fender Rhodes anyone?) on the slow, melancholy side of things but with a somewhat nervously pulsing beat . Carsten Pieper
With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)