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Label: Cyclops
Line-up:
- Michael Dearing, guitars, keyboards, vocals.
- Carl Groves, guitars, keyboards, vocals.
- Patrick Henry, bass, percussion
- Kevin Thomas, drums, vibraphone, vocals.
Guest musicians:
In this already distant first album by the Americans Salem Hill, what we can
find are short and simple songs less elaborated than those on their more
recent works. The style that shows is near to the neo-prog of bands as IQ or
Marillion, but with a notable American taste inheritor of Foreigner, Styx,
Ambrosia or Kansas.
It's not a great album, but the group offers us some tracks that aren't bad,
as "Aceldama" near to Kansas with good melodies, "Fool's Gate", more rockish
"Never Alone" and "Open Windows" also reminding to Kansas. We can find the
neo-progressive sound specially in such tracks as "Golden Crosses", "The
Dilema", " Between the Two " and "Evil One". Whereas with more American
sound we have " There Must Be More Than This ", near to Foreigner.
The rest of tracks seem to me to be weaker.
Definitively an average disc, with a production that might be better and
a few singers who do not stand out too much, but can be enjoyed by both,
neo-prog and American prog rock fans.
Rating: 5/10
Ferran Lizana
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