Squire / Sherwood - Conspiracy
This album was released in 1990, and went straight through my Yes radar unnoticed! And what a shame, because I've been missing out on a very good, fresh-sounding pop-rock Yes-type album (lots of dashes in there o.O). I have heard a couple of tracks of their second album The Unknown, mainly the track Conspiracy, which brought in some confusion about the first album - for me The Unknown was their first album since I hadn't heard of Conspiracy, so when I first saw the album cover of Conspiracy, I thought it was an earlier version of The Unknown, using Conspiracy as the title track. Obviously I was wrong...
Like I mentioned, this album is in the pop-rock range, similar to the sound of Yes in the late 80's and early 90's. One of the reasons the sound is so similar is probably because Sherwood was also part of Yes (as a co-writer at first, then as a co-writer and band member) - oh and, in case you don't know, Chris Squire is one of the permanent members of the band Yes. There are even tracks on the album that are different versions of some Yes songs that were actually released on Yes albums, alongside, of course, of other original tracks. So after all, I was pleasantly surprised, and I'm always happy when this happens :-D
My rating: **** (out of 5)
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