Title: Collins wannabes
Product review: The singer is a bad Phil Collins impersonator who tries real hard to sound just like him... without the intonation. This band is indicitave of my complaint with a lot of prog bands now days; they try too hard to be "progressive". Genesis wasnt trying to be "progressive". They just wrote songs and that is what it happened to sound like. The focus was on writing and performing original music not on capturing the sound of a genre. The effort came before the result. Citizen Cain are guilty of trying to sound "progressive" rather than trying to sound like themselves and it comes off as a poor imitation. The result came before the effort.To me "progressive" means "uncompromising originality". In trying to sound like Genesis these guys are not at all progressive. That doesnt mean that they are bad though; just impersonators rather than innovators. Its a decent listen for those who just cant get enough of that Genesis sound.
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