Now - Spheres (1991)

The second album from this Belgium based band.

Now was a quartet on this album with a lineup of guitars, bass, drums, synths, piano and English vocals. They had help from an xtra member who did backing vocals.

The band was established by a part-time Machiavel member who is now a full time member of this band. The band released three albums and two EPs before they called it a day. 

Based on Spheres, I am now looking to get their third album too. Their debut album is said to be a rather forgetable album. So says ProgArchives.

The music on Spheres can best in simple terms be described as symphonic neo-prog. There is a lot of references to Yes here. If you can get your head around the concept of Yes going neo-prog (!!!!), you will end up with this album. And probably with this band too. 

This fifty-four minutes long album is based on the half an hour long Converging Universes suite. A very diverse piece of music with a lot of acoustic guitars too and some great synths.

The other songs are in the same vein too and it is not direcly easy to see many, if any, differences between this suite and the other songs.

The vocalist does a great job and so does the band. I am sold on this band despite of the lack of any great songs. Nevertheless, this is a very good album.

3.5 points