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Title: A Rarely Missed Target
Review: I won't rehash information found in other reviews of this album. I've recently bought a number of Spock's Beard albums and am shocked at not only their sheer talent, but their ability to convey it in such pleasurable ways. It's all a question of style, and Spock's Beard has it...but just not on this CD. This one is a departure from their normal format, the songs being much shorter and the overall demeanor much 'harder'. The hardness comes from guitar distortions liberally distributed in too many tracks, and although I can normally deal with hard (prog) rock just fine, I find this release too obnoxious on balance. Unless you are distortion freak, stick with many of the other SB albums, many of them are top notch.
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