This arrived last week. If you like early ELP, then you'll love this. Tons of hammond organ and creaking leslie mixed with acoustic piano and synth, and electric guitar courtesy of Marc Bonilla (whoever he is).

Bonilla's singing sometimes reminds me of Lake and sometimes of Wetton. Pretty impressive.

Overall, the first 15 tracks are really one suite. They took two or three tunes and split them up into parts with connecting bits to create a long, but enjoyable listen. It's no Tarkus, and isn't really that innovative, but it feels like home.

Following that are a couple of more popish tunes. It's the kind of thing you might have expected from Emerson had he reconvened The Nice in 1973 instead of moving on to Brain Salad Surgery.

There's even a cover of the Barbarian with wailing electric guitar to wrap it all up.

Very nice comeback album for Emo. Hopefully he'll pump out few more quickly rather than waiting another ten years or so.

Given the repetitive and totally boring state of new prog music today, this retro tirade gets a 9 out of 10.