The one and only album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and vocals.
This album was released eight years after the ELP album Love Beach. Keith Emerson and Greg Lake wanted to get together as ELP again. Carl Palmer was on duties and tours with Asia at that time and recommended Cosy Powell as a sit-in drummer on this album.
All three members are legends in their own right and they have all passed on. And this album has been hanging around in my album collection for around fifteen years without getting a review.
The music is the typical ELP fare after they ditched the more neo-classical and symphonic prog stuff and went more AOR.
AOR but still with some pretty big influences from the good old ELP.
Ther version of Loco-Motion, an evergreen, is cheesy to say at least.
Greg Lake's vocals are good and the rest of duo does a good job. We are clearly listening to ELP although the P is Cosy Powell this time.
Yes, the album smells of burning cheese but it is still a good album. Songs like Mars and The Score takes us back to their better days and is alone the reason why this album is worthy a purchase.
3 points
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