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Title: Good album by a forgotten prog-rock band
Review: This is a 3-1/2 star album, but I'm happy to round up to 4 because it's good to see these albums available on CD. When I looked two years ago, I couldn't find anything by Focus for sale. Focus is a Dutch progressive-rock band that mostly does instrumentals, centered on Jan Akkerman's guitar and Thijs Van Leer's flute. "Hocus Pocus" is as good a novelty single as prog-rock ever produced, with its combination of power-chord guitar, yodeled verse, a vocal bridge that sounds like Popeye on uppers, and Tull-like flute solo. "Janis" is a lovely flute-based piece. "Eruption" is a long piece with several repeated riffs; in true annoying prog-rock fashion, each riff is given its own name.(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)
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