Trojan Horse describe themselves as purveyors of ‘Progressive tinged Rock.’ With a background in the output of King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Yes, they claim to have been ‘rolling the ball of musical joy further and further forward in time, creating a genre snowball effect, until we landed in 2007, since then we've been sculpting the mass of noise into beautiful shapes.’
Very noble, I’m sure. ‘Fire’ is proggy in that it veers off on a range of tangents, but is blurry and hectic and while its frenetic energy is exciting in its way, it seems to lack focus to really make it stick.
The acoustic tracks, ‘Ohio’ (a Crisby, Stills, Nash & Young cover) and ‘Disciplining the Reserve Army’ are psychedelia-infused folk that work rather better, and although the narrative on the latter doesn’t really need to eight minutes long, for my money its lilting tone but altogether darker lyrical elements make it the pick of the bunch. But then, I was never going to be waxing lyrical over the three remixes of the lead track, was I?
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